Sunday, May 31, 2015
Friday, May 29, 2015
Fireflies
... wearing a white dress and the scent of wild roses
... summer arrives through an open window
... a basket of fireflies in her hand
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Highway 26
... late at night / Highway 26 ... I pull over on the shoulder
... watch a low wall of fire move across a farmer's field
... through charred stubble ... another spring
Photograph by John L. Dengler
Friday, May 22, 2015
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Singing on Sunday
... bible school / bible camp / bible verses memorized ... life divided on these lines
... in a lavender dotted swiss dress / homemade and pressed to perfection
... I sang for the congregation ... Life's Railroad to Heaven
The photograph is my mother, long before I sang for the congregation.
Friday, May 8, 2015
Boundaries
... meadow sky morning
... the field the river the trees
... my infinite boundaries
The photograph is mine.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
The Clumsy Years
... in the tiny bathroom at the top of the stairs / I press the phone to my ear
... you ... just out of prison / me ... unable to tell you
... fumbling through the clumsy years
Saturday, May 2, 2015
The School Bus
... leaving his motorcycle in the tall grass we walk into the orchard ... in the
distance a school bus ... the one I'm supposed to be on ... turns down
a dirt road / disappears
The photograph is mine.
Sunday, April 26, 2015
In the Rice Fields
... in the rice fields I still hear you singing your mother's songs
... bicycle spokes turning at dusk
... behind my house the forsythia blooms
Photograph by Cindy Fan
Friday, April 24, 2015
Life's Little Mysteries
... in an abandoned one room schoolhouse
... an accordion
... still in its case, shiny new
Photograph by Zebarnabe
Monday, April 20, 2015
Back to Back
... I wanna be sitting back to back with you in our room
... pounding away on our old Royal typewriters
til 3:45 a.m. / classes starting at 8:00
Photograph by William Gedney
Friday, April 17, 2015
Birdhouse Repair
in the midst of birdhouse repair
the little stone cottage
falls
apart
in
my
hands
The photograph is mine.
Sunday, April 12, 2015
The Stream
... on the way to red willow pond
... in a stand of sunlit trees
... I kneel / drink from a cold clear stream
..... there are days that never leave us
Photograph by Montucky: montucky.wordpress.com
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Thursday, April 2, 2015
The Unknown
... from my small window I watch ... mother and dad arguing in the headlights
... every breath ... a rise and fall into the unknown
Image: Nicolas Bouvier
Monday, March 30, 2015
The Field
... 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
... I cross the dark field between our farms / singing hymns my mother taught me
... one eye on the porch light / trying not to run
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
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