... then everything happened at once ... ghosts in the plum trees / dead leaves on the steps ... his name on the owl's tongue ...... the long drive home
... from behind the wood cookstove / in the comfort of the mitten box ... I watch ... the deer lying dead on the kitchen floor ..... the rest of the winter to go
... in the fading light of the farmhouse ... I map my dreams in an old atlas ... leave my mark searching for home ... margins stained by fingertips My reading of this poem on public radio KAXE: https://beta.prx.org/stories/168475
Photo courtesy of Curious Expeditions
... running across the granary roof to a hard landing ... he never got the hang of flying ... his angry feet forever weighing him down
Painting by Winslow Homer
leaning into the ironing board and my yellow flowered bell bottoms
you sang ruby ruby when will you be mine
then ... your brother died in vietnam you did some time I married young
our last back porch summer
Photograph by Mary W. Farmer
... on a rocky ledge above the river ... lightning shatters black sky ... I awake to your voice ... a poem bittersweet .......... we drift into morning
... two ruffed grouse lived in my meadow ... all that's left ... pieces of their wings ... I kneel beside them ... that's too many / too many broken things
Image by John Audubon