Journey of Changes (To the Enchanted Isles)
byI. Clearer the land below …………crushed-velvet emerald …………………..& gold forest brocade Then veiled …………then shrouded in clouds clouds below blinding early Light clouds above…
Poetry
First Baby
byThe hospital felt like a tomb just after midnight, your body at home in my womb for the final time. In the bathroom, I…
Between States
byTwenty miles into Ohio, sky shifts downward, opens wide to hide hills, pries the “hi” from the sides of its name. There a man…
Walking the Shoreline
byDock elongates winter cold, overwrought with broken shells, white and purple fragments, wood cake of seagull feathers, droppings. Lampposts extend to the clouds, like…
Terra Irredenta
byWashington, D.C. A doe and fawn in our driveway— Two fox cubs play in the yard. A pair of red-tailed hawks patrol the ravine…
Skamani Season
bysand pipers pluck the eyes of junk shad twitching in mesh nets strewn over the quay as big blue men string poles along the…
River or Rock?
by(in memory of Orlando, June 12, 2016) The ghost of childhood winters chills the summer heat, skipping across the field behind Bingham Elementary, stopping…
Exhalation of a Pine Wood in Winter
byIn the deep shadow of the wood, ice-bound needles clink together. Cold wind blows away the piney odor for a moment, and by its…
The Catalogue of Living Here
by1. The maple measures out the space its buds will need for leaf and flowers pick colours from the charts laid out in the…
Hearing My Neighbor’s Gun Practice
byOutside in the sun I awoke startled at how bright yellow finches are able to scatter so freely.