Monthly Archives: January 2016

Already,just this morning what I’ve seen makes Cezanne blush, Monet wish he was with me, not stuck in some garden in Giverny. Wild white swans sitting on the bays thin ice as sun, cloud shrouded, cracked gray morning into silver … Continue reading →

Jemmie,black cat, approves of bifold doors. Slips paws under, yanks! hinges creak, in she stalks. Rich treasures there: shoe box stacks to unstack; fluffy hats; soft sweaters; warm dark corners. Bifold doors are targets for feline intrigue. Latched doors frustrate, … Continue reading →

who says,”stones are dead.” but bones inside my head are living like my heart, are living like my soul? who says? Drill a hole through a flat stone. Slip a hide string through the hole, knot it, and spin! spin … Continue reading →

Ignore science. Accept the light the moon offers. Recognize that certain beauty. Admit our glaring sun and full bright day hold no corner on enlightenent. The moon’s the source! What an unbidden burdeon that would be, to loose. Imagine our … Continue reading →

Rough hands and strong backs that built these stone walls are gone. Flesh is dust. Walls which edged corn fields, kept woods at bay, lay broken, half unstitched stitches through trees, long rock scars, woven through second growth. Old farm’s … Continue reading →

One late October golden day, red, bronze, yellow leaves shift beneath my feet, I walk the fense to clean bird houses hooked to posts, tree limbs, take out old nests, rid mites, mud, pests. I lowered the bottom of a … Continue reading →

my calico cat cuddled in the corner of the couch, her purring growing stronger with my stroking. Is the glee in the gleam in the eye of the killer the same as the glee in the gleam in the eye … Continue reading →

I killed Bambi last night. The little guy pranced his head into the grill of my VW bug. It was quick. His mother probably watching. Mother definitely was. Nothing I could do: too sudden, other cars, the ditch… Nothing I … Continue reading →

Nature, by nature is subtle. She doesn’t invade, She includes. Sure, She’s a big lady, bust size in the thousands… such emotions! Her snits so savage: hurricane here, earthquake there, volcanos everywhere… but Her pervasive, true self is slow, deliberate. … Continue reading →

Nature knocked me out today with a quick jab and a long roundhouse punch I couldn’t duck. Sitting, this mindless summer morning, staring out this window, when a rabbit stretched across the yard, past cosmos, sunflowers, glads… then, five, maybe … Continue reading →