... a field of white daisies / the silence of the plow
Friday, August 4, 2017
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Summer Camp
... dining hall
... bible class
... stolen kisses on the raft
... no merit badge again
Image by Anne Liese
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Among the Wild Iris
... are you lonely, he asks / do you miss me?
... only now and then
... when the deer pause in the evening among the wild iris
Image by Lyse Marion
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Sometimes We Call It Love
... cows bellowing for their calves
... we want what instinct tells us to want
... and sometimes ... we call it love
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Baptized
... in a white blouse and turquoise skirt my mother made me
... I was baptized in Rainy Lake
... walked back to shore / not feeling anything but wet
... walked back to shore / not feeling anything but wet
Monday, April 3, 2017
One Day
... one day you're talking to your dead mother
... next day she's gone
... all your dead friends have moved on
... you're alone ..... no one to talk to but yourself
Photograph by Sally Banfill: banfill.com/
Monday, March 20, 2017
Friday, March 17, 2017
This Morning, In the Shower
... this morning, in the shower
... my breasts against your back / you, holding my right hand to your heart
....... the grief of remembering
Sunday, January 1, 2017
I Might Have
... with clay from the high uintas you fashioned a pot
... placed it on top of the piano
... I might have broken it on purpose
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Over Blueberry Pancakes
... over blueberry pancakes you talk of the future
... I sit quietly
... self preservation kicking in
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Dancing to Brook Benton
... at a bar just off the strip / we danced to brook benton
... tenuous life couldn't reach us
... if I ever get a moment back ... I want that one
Image by Pier Toffoletti
Friday, November 25, 2016
In the Soft Woods
snow
falls
on
the
slow
moving
river
in
the
soft
woods
a
mourning
dove
The photograph is mine.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Your Hat
... somewhere between Fargo and Sioux City
... you asked me if I liked your hat
... I didn't say no ... your Mozart eyes ... your sad smile
Photograph by Gilen Linn
Saturday, October 29, 2016
By the Lilacs
... behind the Carnegie Library / you took my picture by the lilacs
... I was wearing your chambray shirt
... it was spring ... I thought I loved you
Photograph by Poppy Barach
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
The Great Divide
... in cutoffs and indian cotton I stand on the great divide
... the summer before the legend
... before I knew the secret / the famous lie
Photograph by Gilen Linn
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Marigolds
... immersed in autumn / I walk around my yard
... mushrooms
... maples
... the marigolds last breath
Photograph Pam Ullman
Sunday, October 9, 2016
Blackjack
... fourteen years old
... the cabin on birch lake
... playing blackjack for kisses
Photograph by Harry Finch
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Baskets Return to the Grass
... baskets return to the grass / pots become sherds
... still, we walk through meadows
... gather white clay along the creek
Image: Claire Basler
Monday, September 5, 2016
Climbing the Great Wall
last night
a black bear
ran
through the roses
again, I was a Tibetan boy
climbing
the Great Wall
Monday, August 8, 2016
As I Drive
... on the key ring you made for me
... a silver bear claw
... a lock of buffalo hair / softly brushing my knee
Friday, August 5, 2016
When I Was Young
... when I was young a vast plain of days lay before me
... corrections could be made
now ... there's a path in the woods
... the sound of the river
Painting by James McLaughlin Way
Sunday, July 31, 2016
A Week Before Fifth Grade
... and threw me off
... my arm in a cast / mother sat at the foot of my bed ... sang away the pain
Photograph by Julian Mofteescu
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
In Dreams
... you're gone ... but we watch for each other in dreams
... in the lobby of the hotel
... you turn to me and say ....... there you are
Image by Mara Light
Monday, May 30, 2016
Years Later
... the small town theater of my childhood stands in charred silence
... Tootsie still on the marquee
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
On a Montana Backroad
... on a Montana backroad a black bear scratches his name
... along the riverbank ..... wild iris
Image: Kath Williamson
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
The Phone Rings
... the phone rings
... but this stone on my chest won't let me answer
... I sit quietly / watch a sparrow build her nest above my door
Image: Pier Toffoletti
Monday, April 18, 2016
Just This Morning
... during my nap beneath my living room window ...
I was thinking the very same thing
Saturday, April 16, 2016
What the World Already Knows
... where river road meets the highway two swans appear in the morning light
... they follow my car to the bridge ... then return to the river
... sometimes our minds need to catch up to what the world already knows
Thursday, April 14, 2016
The Way You Kissed Me
... the way you kissed me when we hadn't seen each other in years
... how ... in my hesitation you said
... I think we've waited long enough
Photograph: GK Hart / Vikki Hart
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Looking Out the Window
... looking out the window of this motel room / listening to you sing in the shower
... knowing we can never tell our story
Image by Loui Jover
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