... piano lesson over
... I cross the dark field between our farms / singing hymns my mother taught me
... one eye on the porch light / trying not to run
Monday, March 30, 2015
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Midnight Rain
... midnight rain on river road
... shadows on sheer curtains
... another car carrying you further away
Photograph by Alfredo Lietor
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Broken Branches
... broken branches beneath hundred year old pines
... small birds on sunlit bales of straw
... a footbridge / the river ..... this persistent dream
The photograph is mine.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Icarus' Sister
... climbing hay bales through the skylight to the roof of the barn
... wanting to get a little closer to the sun / Icarus' timid sister
Painting by Winslow Homer
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Watercolor Woods
... white sable brush
... on watercolor woods
... the light touch that eludes me
Watercolor: Sterling Edwards
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
The Ermine
little ermine with black tipped tail
something has drawn blood from your beautiful white throat
left you lying on this path through the meadow
I lean into another loss / yearning for summer
spring already a lie
Painting, Clearing, by Jeanie Tomanek
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
In Sepia
young and in sepia
my mother stands by the side of the road
trees and a mailbox
she's waiting, she waves
I wake up ...
my room
my dog
breathing
Photograph: my mother
Saturday, March 7, 2015
The Only Light
... the only light / the neighbor's barn
... we breathe as one
... the dog and I / this deep blue night
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Monday, March 2, 2015
The House Beyond the House
... in the house beyond the house
... lilacs push through worn out floorboards
... blackbirds wait for our return
Image by Andrea Kowch
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
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