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... a young whitetail / the object of my affection
... rubs his antlers on an empty apple tree
Painting: Jeanie Tomanek
I hold it in my palm
feel the potter's presence
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I don't know why they've made me so happy
I can't stop smiling
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between the apple tree that's almost deadand the remains of the ramshackle shed
my mother's righteous golden glow
Your note to him on the back
He handed it to me on your front porch
The summer before he died
Insisted I have it
Now you're gone too
And the photo?
It's where it was meant to be
I think he knew that when he gave it to me
a red winged blackbird flits from reed to reed
... and as I carried it to the house it talked to me
... told me it didn't want to be in my collection on the porch
... but with those inside the house / on my bookshelf
... where it now quietly resides
Photograph by Peter James
a poem that began with grandmothers
ringing the necks of chickens
and ending with sir isaac newton
sitting on a bed
I realized I'd skipped a page
read two poems as one
and that my friends is poetry
sometimes you end up
in a place wholly unexpected
Art by Rodney Hatfield
some days you'd call just to share something
a poem, a song, a story from your childhood
the atacama desert's annual rainfall
there are days I still drive down my road
wondering if you've called
your message blinking out into the universe
... beyond the ice broken river ... coyotes
... songs of spring
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... I hope they know how much I love them
Image: Polina Washington
he called and asked if I'd read him a poem
the poem I'd sent in a message the night before
the one that says, "no one you love is dying"
we both knew it wasn't true
but I read it as though it was
takes me down familiar back roads
to where you once lived
but your house has been torn down
the mailbox is gone / the driveway, overgrown
only the gate remains
across the road
on the far side of the pond
two swans, drift
... until one of us is gone the other left remembering
... you lean back on your elbow blue bandana wrapped around your head
... I sit cross legged in a long cotton dress
... the sound of silence on the record player
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... the pillow case that bears his scent
... the empty glass still on the nightstand
... a brush that holds some wisps of hair / the myth of hope
Image by Polina Washington
... I step into the greenhouse
... stand quietly / listen to the rain
Written with Cletis L Stump
Originally posted here: https://latenightfootfalls.tumblr.com/post/63924231967/its-been-a-year-today-i-step-into-the
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our bedroom high above a busy street
a steady stream of car lights
a little grocery on the corner
another world inside this one, where you and I
spend some quiet time, remembering
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in a tin once filled with chocolates
degas and his dancers on the lid
scissors / sewing needles / spools of thread
a small orange box that held a pair of earrings
moonstones set in silver
and a book of matches
where I wrote down this memory
Painting by Edgar Degas
I'm still there / my four year old self
on the porch steps sitting in sunlight
dressing my reluctant cat in doll clothes
Photograph by Evan Leavitt
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