... returning to my childhood of crows // fence lines
... Indians in the woods
... here ... he says ... wear this feather in your hair
Painting by Andrea Kowch, Crow's Song (detail)
Friday, February 27, 2015
Returning
... returning to my childhood of crows // fence lines
... Indians in the woods
... here ... he says ... wear this feather in your hair
Painting by Andrea Kowch, Crow's Song (detail)
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Honeybees
honeybees // high mountain wildflowers
jars of sunlight on roadside stands ...
my sangre de cristo summers
Photograph from this wonderful food blog: http://www.theorangebee.com/
Friday, February 20, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Monday, February 16, 2015
They Sing To Me
All night long they sing to me
The river the rocks the Milky Way
Songs from the Civil War
Sister help to trim the sail
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Watercolor by Earl B. Lewis
Sunday, February 15, 2015
On the Way To the Ruins
... on the way to the ruins
... i push through tumbleweeds
... somewhere, my life
Photograph by Garrett Palm
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
No Umbrella
... fifteen years ago today
... she left me without an umbrella
... she knew the healing properties of rain
Friday, February 6, 2015
The Hat Rack
neatly stacked firewood in disarray
just one more time
I'd love to hear my father say
use your head
for something besides a hat rack
Photograph by Northscape Photography
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Summer Pasture
... four years old ... I remember standing in summer pasture
... grandfather's sheep sailing over my head
... wool spinning into golden sunlight / the dust on my feet
Painting by Winslow Homer
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Thursday, January 29, 2015
So Many Towns
so many towns
lives I could live in
there's a little house
on a backstreet in Bisbee Arizona
porch covered in wisteria
maybe next time
Watercolor by Rachel McNaughton
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Ghosts In the Plum Trees
... 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
Photograph by Anthony Dunn
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Rainbow Valley
A dead brother's leather jacket
Stolen from its hook
Zeke's Bar in Colorado
That tree in Rainbow Valley
The thing we can't let go
Monday, January 19, 2015
Discovering the Dipper
... from the corner of our farmhouse
... my father navigates as I discover the Big Dipper
... nothing has been the same since
Photograph by Cale Best
Friday, January 16, 2015
The Mitten Box
... 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
Painting, "Night Flight, by Terry Redlin
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Mapping Dreams
... 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
Monday, January 12, 2015
Monday, January 5, 2015
Flying
... 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
Saturday, January 3, 2015
In Auvers
... Vincent's bones
... I wonder if he still struggles
... with green ... and yellow
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Palisade
... alone on the bridge at Palisade
... snow covering my hair
... a crow in the fading light
Photograph: Ted Anderson
Monday, December 29, 2014
As Dusk Descends
... as dusk descends / blackbirds in the poplar move higher
... 'til at the top they cluster
... like a black star on a barren christmas tree
Saturday, December 27, 2014
The Ironing Board
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
Monday, December 22, 2014
Evening in Paris
... in the toe of my stocking
... a small glass bottle with silver crown
... my mother's deep blue dream
... Evening in Paris
Friday, December 19, 2014
Cradled
... cradled between the railroad tracks and the ocean
... I sleep in time's slim measurements
... waiting on the wide arc of change
Photograph by Danielle Mourning
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Around a Water Tank
... along a cold Nebraska highway
... mules gather for their portrait
... I snap / the windmill hums ... songs of a distant spring
The photograph is mine.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
In Pale Light
... in pale light we pore over manuscripts / notebooks
... searching for the honest word / monks bent in prayer
Painting by Rembrandt
Monday, December 8, 2014
Sunrise in the Sierra Nevada
... sunrise in the Sierra Nevada / mist on the slopes
... you still sleeping, Gary Snyder?
... come, take away this dismay / help me feed these horses
Photograph by Charles M. Phillips
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Flying
... flying down Route 66 in your Pontiac Parisienne
... Ray Charles on the radio / sunrise glinting off the wheel
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