Winter Garden
“What is essential is invisible to the eye.”–Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince It’s a white dark world Time stops, frozen, […]
It’s Not Your Turkey
The only color in the landscape that even approaches vivid is the dark emerald of the evergreens on the hillside.
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Lone Little Dipper
“He is the mountain streams’ own darling, the humming-bird of blooming waters, loving rocky ripple-slopes and sheets of foam as
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Mouth Full of Grass, Facing East
Even though dawn is less than an hour away, it is black dark, clear and cold, the stars vibrant crystal
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The Last Aster
Eyelash petals thrust out with intentionthe last purple aster stands stout amidst the pumpkin spice melee of a hillside in high autumn.
Some Dogs
It was an unseasonably warm November day, and my friend and I were walking her two dogs wearing only long
Dead Calf Camp
I don’t see it at first, lying proneon a soft bed of warm brown sugar sandbetween mother and father juniper
Milkweed Wisdom
Angel wings of milkweedopen with hopes carried on strings as light as prayersa seed as solid as a plan. But there
Graveyards are the First to Go
It’s well into autumn, but it’s been warm with no frost yet, so it’s still August as far as some
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