... a little bit of us
Photographer unknown
Monday, September 21, 2020
Saturday, September 12, 2020
September
... she waits with lantern on the porch / moonlight falling on leaves
... beyond the yard / forest shadows
Written with Cletis Stump
Originally posted here: https://latenightfootfalls.tumblr.com/post/62874671937
Photographer unknown
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Sunday, September 6, 2020
Between Us
... sitting across from each other / knees almost touching
... between us ... this quiet understanding
Photographer unknown
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
I Sweep the Steps
... I sweep the steps of dying leaves
... unaware / unconcerned ... the moon saunters past
Written with Cletis Stump
Originally posted here: https://latenightfootfalls.tumblr.com/post/75494790120
Photographer unknown
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
A Thousand Crows
Written with Cletis Stump
Originally posted here: https://latenightfootfalls.tumblr.com/post/59880621829/madness-a-thousand-crows-caw-in-the
Art: Vincent van Gogh
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Early Morning
barefoot in wet grass
I wait for the lilies to open
Photograph: Anne Silver
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Leaf Shadows
leaf shadows on the kitchen floor
the freedom in choosing not to wonder
Photograph: Howard Dale
Monday, August 10, 2020
Minnesota
... walking back from the clothes line
... arms full of bed sheets / eyes full of autumn
Written with Cletis Stump
Originally posted here: https://latenightfootfalls.tumblr.com/post/64420058427/minnesota-late
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Lilacs
Photograph: Anna Marcell
Thursday, August 6, 2020
A Bowl of Amber
... wheelbarrow filled with last night's rain
... straw bales in broken sunlight
... wallace stegner in a bowl of amber ... me listening for the river
Written with Cletis Stump
Originally posted here: https://latenightfootfalls.tumblr.com/post/63650463946/wheelbarrow
Photographer unknown
Monday, August 3, 2020
A Small Bird
... black eyed susans grow wild
... farther down / a small bird ... safe on rusting barbed wire
Written with Cletis Stump
My friend, Cletis Stump, who introduced me to micro-poetry and whose poems I've featured here in the past, passed on a few days ago. He had been struggling with health issues for some time. I've not posted some of our collaborations, so to honor his memory and our friendship I'd like to post a few of them over the next several days. This is the first of them. Originally posted here: https://latenightfootfalls.tumblr.com/post/63727836587/near-the-river
Photographer unknown
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Foxglove
/ I lean into the fence line
... my footsteps lost in foxglove
Photograph: Fiona Louise Larkins
Friday, July 3, 2020
Across the Evening Sky
... across the evening sky / red winged blackbird
... so many ways to slip into the next life
Photograph by Sarah Gallaun
Photograph by Sarah Gallaun
Friday, June 26, 2020
What We Choose to Recall
... where the stone wall once stood / a patch of wild daisies
Photograph by Peter James
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
A Flower For My Hair
strange how you came to mind
only to read of your passing the very next day
remember that summer we ran for
the bus as they threatened to leave without us
you'd stopped to pick a flower for my hair
our laughter, the dandelion safely tucked behind my ear
Photograph by Martin Stranka
Sunday, May 3, 2020
Apple Trees
... the apple trees are on my land, but the neighbor is the expert on pruning
... in the fall, we share the apples
... this year, he's pruning them alone
... we talk on the phone and say, we hope it will be a good year for apples
... and, the river is running high / the island has disappeared
Painting: Martin Johnson Heade
Monday, April 6, 2020
After
that day has come around again
that day ...
when everything that came before
became the after
Photograph by Sophie Fontaine
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Angels
on my way home
from an early morning
run to the grocery store
I think about the receipt
$7.77
a few minutes later
I pull into the driveway
and step out of the car
above me
seven trumpeter swans
headed toward the river
we live in the company of angels
Photograph by Peter James
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Apples
my pail overflows with apples
sunlit grass against bare legs
Art: Olga Grigorieva-Klimova
Monday, March 2, 2020
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Turning on the Evening Lamp
I pause to look around
pottery, art, photographs
books that helped me through
I am overwhelmed by the past
by all these people looking back at me
seeing now so clearly
everything is memory
Image: Mara Light
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Bluebells
beyond the window under a foot of snow
bluebells wait for spring
from the warmth of my kitchen stove
I wait with them
this wildflower promise between us
Photographer unknown
Friday, February 14, 2020
On the Riverbank
alone on the riverbank
moonlight
falling
on her
breast
a white swan in late autumn
Image: Jeanie Tomanek
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Rattling in the Wind
beech leaves
rattling in the wind
Photo: Leila Fores
Monday, December 30, 2019
Canyon Road
... work gloves, a book about willem de kooning on the seat beside you
... your fingers trace the childhood scar on my wrist
... days end ... the moments remain
Photographer unknown
Monday, December 16, 2019
Cripple Creek
... on a dead end street / his old house
... not knowing I'm already there
... I stand in my future and my past / the choice I learn to live with
Image: Mara Light
Monday, November 25, 2019
Traveling Through a Snowstorm
traveling through a snowstorm, my marriage
almost over, I spend the night at a motel
just off the interstate
by the nightstand on a broken light switch cover
a family prays at the dinner table
I stare at the spot where a corner is missing
the mother's head no longer there
Photographer unknown
Friday, November 22, 2019
Back from the Meadow
... back from the meadow / head full of cliches
... and why not?
... the summer sun / the whispering pines / the fence line!
clouds
crows
wild asters
Photo: Helena Moore
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