early morning
barefoot in wet grass
I wait for the lilies to open
Photograph: Anne Silver
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Monday, August 10, 2020
Minnesota
... minnesota / late afternoon
... walking back from the clothes line
... arms full of bed sheets / eyes full of autumn
Written with Cletis L Stump
Originally posted here: https://latenightfootfalls.tumblr.com/post/64420058427/minnesota-late
... walking back from the clothes line
... arms full of bed sheets / eyes full of autumn
Written with Cletis L Stump
Originally posted here: https://latenightfootfalls.tumblr.com/post/64420058427/minnesota-late
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Lilacs
... morning light / spent lilacs by the kitchen sink ....... this brief life
Photograph: Anna Marcell
Photograph: Anna Marcell
Thursday, August 6, 2020
A Bowl of Amber
... wheelbarrow filled with last night's rain
... straw bales in broken sunlight
... wallace stegner in a bowl of amber ... me listening for the river
Written with Cletis L Stump
Originally posted here: https://latenightfootfalls.tumblr.com/post/63650463946/wheelbarrow
Photographer unknown
Monday, August 3, 2020
A Small Bird
... black eyed susans grow wild
... farther down / a small bird ... safe on rusting barbed wire
Written with Cletis L Stump
My friend, Cletis Stump, who introduced me to micro-poetry and whose poems I've featured here in the past, passed on a few days ago. He had been struggling with health issues for some time. I've not posted some of our collaborations, so to honor his memory and our friendship I'd like to post a few of them over the next several days. This is the first of them. Originally posted here: https://latenightfootfalls.tumblr.com/post/63727836587/near-the-river
Photographer unknown
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Foxglove
/ I lean into the fence line
... my footsteps lost in foxglove
Photograph: Fiona Louise Larkins
Friday, July 3, 2020
Across the Evening Sky
... across the evening sky / red winged blackbird
... so many ways to slip into the next life
Photograph by Sarah Gallaun
Photograph by Sarah Gallaun
Friday, June 26, 2020
What We Choose to Recall
what we choose to recall
... where the stone wall once stood / a patch of wild daisies
Photograph by Peter James
... where the stone wall once stood / a patch of wild daisies
Photograph by Peter James
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
A Flower For My Hair
strange how you came to mind
only to read of your passing the very next day
remember that summer we ran for
the bus as they threatened to leave without us
you'd stopped to pick a flower for my hair
our laughter, the dandelion safely tucked behind my ear
Photograph by Martin Stranka
Sunday, May 3, 2020
Apple Trees
... the apple trees are on my land, but the neighbor is the expert on pruning
... in the fall, we share the apples
... this year, he's pruning them alone
... we talk on the phone and say, we hope it will be a good year for apples
... and, the river is running high / the island has disappeared
Painting: Martin Johnson Heade
Monday, April 6, 2020
After
that day has come around again
that day ...
when everything that came before
became the after
Photograph by Sophie Fontaine
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Angels
on my way home
from an early morning
run to the grocery store
I think about the receipt
$7.77
a few minutes later
I pull into the driveway
and step out of the car
above me
seven trumpeter swans
headed toward the river
we live in the company of angels
Photograph by Peter James
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Apples
my pail overflows with apples
sunlit grass against bare legs
Art: Olga Grigorieva-Klimova
Monday, March 2, 2020
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Turning on the Evening Lamp
I pause to look around
pottery, art, photographs
books that helped me through
I am overwhelmed by the past
by all these people looking back at me
seeing now so clearly
everything is memory
Image: Mara Light
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Bluebells
beyond the window under a foot of snow
bluebells wait for spring
from the warmth of my kitchen stove
I wait with them
this wildflower promise between us
Painting by William B. Hoyt
Friday, February 14, 2020
On the Riverbank
alone on the riverbank
moonlight
falling
on
moonlight
falling
on
her
breast
breast
a white swan in late autumn
Image: Jeanie Tomanek
Image: Jeanie Tomanek
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Monday, December 30, 2019
Canyon Road
... work gloves, a book about willem de kooning on the seat beside you
... your fingers trace the childhood scar on my wrist
Photographer unknown
Monday, December 16, 2019
Cripple Creek
on a dead end street / his old house
not knowing I'm already there
not knowing I'm already there
I stand in my future and my past
the choice I learn to live with
Image: Mara Light
Image: Mara Light
Monday, November 25, 2019
Traveling Through a Snowstorm
traveling through a snowstorm, my marriage
almost over, I spend the night at a motel
just off the interstate
by the nightstand on a broken light switch cover
a family prays at the dinner table
I stare at the spot where a corner is missing
the mother's head no longer there
Photographer unknown
Friday, November 22, 2019
Back from the Meadow
... back from the meadow / head full of cliches
... and why not?
... the summer sun / the whispering pines / the fence line!
clouds
crows
wild asters
Photo: Helena Moore
Friday, October 11, 2019
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
In a Dream
you asked me to go fishing on the snake river
it was summer & life unbearably young
now, you've been gone
three years
in a dream last night you called me
by my childhood nickname
a name you never knew
it's everything knowing
you've met someone
who did
Image: Hamed khosroshahi
Thursday, August 22, 2019
In the Distance
... the shape of my neighbor's voice
Photograph by Brett Canet-Gibson
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Thirty Odd Years
thirty odd years
we sat on your porch
the radio asking
who'll stop the rain
now, six months after your passing
I stand outside
still on the porch an ice chest
and two chairs
Photograph by Warren Reed
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Dreaming
... this morning / a black bear pink peonies morning /
... later, in twilight / my soft white blanket
... raspberry satin quilt folded over the end /
... this life I'm dreaming
The photo is mine.
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
On a Path Above the Lake
on a path above the lake
I watched your naked body
your outstretched arms
you were praying
to the water, the trees, the sky
the early summer sun
decades later I think of
you and wonder
was I you watching
from a distance
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