Poetry

  • Winter Rhododendrons

    After famished deer foraged The buds donning dormancy’s sleeping caps of snow, I mourned  losing May’s boon of blooms tossing their pink and purple bouquetsto the eager bridesmaids…

  • Upon Landscaping my Recently Purchased A-frame’s Two Acres

    As I excavate their basement studios of loam, I loveHow the worms completely ignore their new landlord  While the neighboring divas of weeping willowsDon’t lose…

  • The Butterfly Farmer’s Breathless Monologue After Giving Another Tour of Their Greenhouse

    “Though thrilled to disclose them tastingwith feet and old enough to have flown Inside the ears of T. rex, our true purpose is farming this Kafka-like metamorphosis …

  • Mirasol

    Like lions,Maned and magnificentAnd such sturdy stems All of the suns and other starflowersStretched themselves awake.

  • Katuba Atapar 

    Rounded homes made by agile handswhere the land is free – no fences. Children carrying toddlers as their own, dozens run to see the unfamiliar. Need…

  • Grilled Rainbow Trout

    Death called my namesome time ago, asking for a gift I would notgive, words I would not whisper, ashes offeredto a mid-May sky, a girl…


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