Photograph by Marius Kasteckas
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
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Monday, January 20, 2014
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Winter Term
circling stones beneath the bridge
sunfish
count the days til summer
The photograph is mine.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Counterpoint
... counterpoint to the wind / perfectly still ... I listen to the chimes
... a crazed monk drunk on moonlight
... the world called to prayer
Monday, January 13, 2014
Daybreak
... the neighbor's truck rumbles me awake
... day breaks on river road
Photograph by Brian Brown
Friday, January 10, 2014
Red Fox Sunrise
... sunrise / on the steps of the abandoned chicken coop a red fox yawns
The photograph is mine.
Sunday, January 5, 2014
At the Cave
... at the mouth of the cave I remember
... starlight in the hills / fire on rock walls
... silence / bare shoulders touching night air
Photograph by Tiny Malone
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
In the Sand Hills
... in the Sand Hills of Nebraska
... Black Angus munch on stubbled grass
... I lean into the wind / listen
... everything is fiction
The photograph is mine.
Saturday, December 28, 2013
In the Winter Pasture
... in the winter pasture / fresh powder records every movement
... fox / coyote / deer
... and this fan of feathers / turkey angels in the snow
Photograph by Scott Hill
Thursday, December 19, 2013
We Had the Weekends
... we had the weekends ... pinochle and pot 'til four in the morning
... plates piled high with deep fried smelt from lake superior ... your easy laugh
... now you're gone ... and I can't lean across the table
... kiss your sweet chocolate mouth / tell you that I love you
Photograph by William Gedney
Friday, December 13, 2013
The Picture
... you take our picture while we're sitting on the steps of our first house
... my black corduroy bell bottoms / his horn rimmed glasses
... our little boy between us ....... I'll have two more husbands after him
... your oldest son / not yet born ... will die in a motorcycle accident
... it's all there on those front steps / we just can't see it yet
Photograph by William Gedney
Monday, December 2, 2013
Beside the Highway
... beside the highway / a field of sunflowers where you took my picture that day
... the picnic in the cemetery down a narrow dirt road / quietly crying on the way home
... years spent prying my hands loose when I couldn't let go
My reading of this poem on public radio:
https://beta.prx.org/stories/166291
Friday, November 29, 2013
Minnesota Nov 16th
beyond the remains of the phlox and peonies the yellow grass lies dormant
I watch from my living room window ... sip my tea
Photograph by Diane Varner
Monday, November 25, 2013
Morning on Tsankawi
... snow falling on the pajarita plateau / light moving across the valley
... morning on Tsankawi
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Late November
... late november
... calling on his great grandfather for a blessing he smoked whitefish in an old refrigerator
... pulled salty flesh from crisp skin
... the ways of the ancients ... the remembered taste of snow on pine
Saturday, November 16, 2013
From My Father's Window
... from my father's window
... a bird feeder in the snow
... a grey squirrel stealing seeds
... and all the time that's left
Photograph by Alexei Mikhailov
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
My Father's Thermos
... he worked away from home to put food on the table / came back on the weekends
... at the bottom of his lunch pail ... a candy bar / three musketeers for three daughters
... five decades later / I still feel the weight of my father's thermos
My reading of it on public radio, KAXE: https://beta.prx.org/stories/111319
Monday, November 11, 2013
Abandoned Schoolhouse
... abandoned schoolhouse
... in the basement / the ghosts of broken boys
... mistrust lingers on the stairs
Photograph by Steve Hirsch
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
For the Goat Man
... reclusive and quiet / known only as the goat man
... we ski in the snowy woods past his cabin / stop to listen
... from a single window lit by a single lamp / Pavarotti in moonlight
my reading on public radio:
https://beta.prx.org/stories/111240
Friday, November 1, 2013
Escape Plan #1
... escape plan #1: age five
... a model T in tall grass parked inside the pasture
... I turn the metal handle / hop inside
... an imaginary sun sets behind the rockies
Escape Plan #2
... escape plan #2: age fourteen ... '57 chevy / turquoise and white
... en route to roosevelt lake
... me driving / rusty beside me ... my world exploding
Escape Plan #3
... bicycle in the woods
... blackbirds calling from the fence line
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Twenty Seven Miles Away
... twenty seven miles away
... snow is falling on the picnic table where we made love fifteen years ago
... pumped cold sweet water from a well
... distance / time ... a river untraversable
Monday, October 28, 2013
Among Ponderosa Pines
... tucked into a shoulder of the Rockies / we slept in our car among Ponderosa pines
... fell asleep listening to the river
... a night so close you could almost touch the stars ....... I think we were happy then
My reading of this poem on public radio: https://beta.prx.org/stories/141539
Friday, October 25, 2013
Route 66
... route 66
... a cemetery ... headstones hidden in grass / a beer joint past closing time
... broken windows / broken doors
... me and jack on a broken road
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
At Midnight
... as though called from my bed / I stand outside ... midnight at my feet
... suspended in the mist between two maples / a quarter moon
... an owl somewhere along the river
My reading of this poem on public radio:
https://beta.prx.org/stories/130682
Photograph by Jukka Helnovirta
Friday, October 18, 2013
Seminole Canyon
... seminole canyon / JB and I are falling apart
... night pressed against our backs
... the cold light of distant stars
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