... standing above the marsh
... watching blackbirds come and go*
*spring / and other fairy tales
Painting by Andrea Kowch
Friday, February 28, 2014
Spring
... standing above the marsh
... watching blackbirds come and go*
*spring / and other fairy tales
Painting by Andrea Kowch
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Leather Purse
... leather purse / gold lock ... strap across my arm
... like great aunt may I walk the dusty road
... carrying all the secrets ten years can hold
Photograph: Jason Ross Williams
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
The Bookshop
... beyond wrought iron / a bookshop
... between geography & history / a slim volume ... my other life
... I trace its worn spine / remember how the story ends
Photograph by Leapfrog1980
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Wild Thing
... now you wander the corridors of Memory Care
... speaking a language only you understand
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
All Night
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... all night I listen ... the fence line / a Jew's harp of barbed wire
... then
... nothing but the owl
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Unwritten Poems
... beneath the paperweight / my mother's poems
... she shaped them into loaves of bread
... fed them to her children
Friday, February 7, 2014
After the Call
... after the call ... I rise / fry two eggs ... his way / over easy
... sip my coffee / hum his favorite hymn
... taste the dark earth turning
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
I Saw You Today
... I saw you reading a newspaper in a cafe today
... well, I thought it was you
... but it was raining / and it was a long time ago
Monday, February 3, 2014
Last Night's Rain
... last night's rain ... a Dali clock / tick tocking on dead leaves
... the butterfly's memories
... lanterns of daylight
Photograph by Vadim Trunov
Saturday, February 1, 2014
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