Alaska 19

The Atlas

Red vein-like highways

Yellow splotches of cities
Green blotches of national
parks marked with tents
Blue almost-straight interstates
Light blue blots of lakes
and snakes of rivers
On the end table teasing
and tempting me
Open to pages 14 & 15
Alaska

Alasa 18

The Malamute
 

Says Malamute a fine woo woo to me and you, waves plumed tail.

Likes work and play, pulls sleds all day, likes us to stay, he’ll treat us well.
A wolf-like face, with strength and grace, will keep the pace and eat a lot.
He’ll dig a hole, he likes it cold, he’s big and bold, just watch the pot.

Alaska 17

Contentment  

A silent soul sat atop a hill   

underneath a silky blue sky
soaking in serenity and grandeur.
White wispy clouds wandered
over fields of yellow clover.

Alaska 16

North to Alaska

Five relatives on a boat

Will we stay afloat?

Alaska 15

Like an Ant

 

 

Piney shore sheltering bay

Magnificent mountains
stand watch over all  
Clouds hover
   

Little yellow rubber raft

drifting along with whales
and God knows what else  
underneath

 

Alaska 14

Somewhere

A rainbow

Not Kansas but Alaska
Not the yellow brick road
But long golden grasses in the morning sun
Not Dorothy
But an ambling Grizzly bear
Not a fantasy land
On second thought…

Alaska 13

The Invitation

 

Two lovers meet

atop a knoll.
A mystical land of glaciers
spreads out before them
in whites, grays and silver blues,
like their future
stretching toward the unknown,
daring them to add color
to a monochromatic world.