A falling penny will shatter glassdropped from the landing on the second floor, but a snowflake that fell ten mileswill barely whisper when it strikes my skinas though it chose to land softly.Money has no mind, while snow is scheming.I’m told … Continue reading a fallen penny
I read once, that a moth is different from a butterfly because of how they fold their wings. It’s that all it takes? Is there some … Continue reading Moth
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle;And wholesome berries thrive and ripen bestNeighbour’d by fruit of baser quality. Shakespeare; King Henry V. Act I. Scene 1. Continue reading Strawberry
Here and there they rise from water trapped in the aircharcoal and black, perspiring with fog,a little copse of firs flashes past and I want to … Continue reading Valley Ambuscade
It was your birthday last week . You would have been 73 years old. l forgot it was your birthday, at least on the day. I think – I hope – that’s a healthy sign. I mean, how long can … Continue reading 26,000 days.
3 cups Nasturtium flowers, 10 small leaves of the same. Half a cups of bee balm Fresh juniper and pepper berries. All washed and dried. Place … Continue reading Spiral Garden Recipe
There’s a memory of fieldsat dusk, and the way crickets tune endlesslyfor a symphony they will never play.Tell me that I am still alive,in the memory … Continue reading Murmuration
The air is drenched with cold that grabs at the rock with greedy fingers. Two bushels of needles in your hand past the spattered field where … Continue reading Pine Sugar
I went to the museum today and watched my baby drum his hands on cabinets of Rhodolite, Crysoprase and Beryl, And thought about the rainbows of … Continue reading We are whole
Blaze of Obscurity 