... amber beads in a glass vase / a necklace from my mother's childhood
... sits on my windowsill / holding the light
Photograph by Gilen Linn
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Amber Beads
... amber beads in a glass vase / a necklace from my mother's childhood
... sits on my windowsill / holding the light
Photograph by Gilen Linn
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
The Fawn
... a new fawn on the side of the road ... gone only a few hours
... my son gently carries him into the woods ... my heart aching with summer
Photograph by Adelphi
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
The Weight
... sitting on the tailgate of your old pickup
... wanting to want what's before me
... paralyzed by the unbearable weight
Underwater sculpture by Jason deCaires Taylor
Monday, July 20, 2015
Driftwood
... somewhere near Copper Falls we let resentment go
... slept under the stars
... driftwood // anchored among the rocks
Photograph by Mike Reyfman
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Cherry Tomatoes
... some poems live in us for decades before their time arrives
... cherry tomatoes popping in our mouths the last day of summer
Photograph by Laura Berman, greenfusephotos.com
Monday, July 13, 2015
The First Time I Saw You
... your chambray shirt among the stacks / our favorite book between us
... you remembered the first line / I, the last ... "Aaron entered into agony."
Photograph by Jeff Stanford
Monday, July 6, 2015
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Indigo Bunting
... on river road an indigo bunting
... I hold him in my palm / caress his broken wing
... across town another friend passes from this world
Photograph by Chris O' Leary
Friday, July 3, 2015
The Last Time I Saw You
... the last time I saw you
... I was in the elevator watching the doors close
... mouthing goodbye
... like we'd both lost our hearing
Photograph by Mel Lindstrom
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