Elk on the Tracks
The cow stands broadside, head turned to stare at me an awkward stance she holds for minutes, for centuries,as I […]
The Problem With all the Answers
Sometimes a promised storm delivers, coming hard and fast, almost in full sheets of snow. A foot or so arrived
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I am the Magpie
Underneath the snow I know the living lie in waitcontent to doze through short days.Like the marmot,a hibernation champion who
Hello, Hallmark
for the bookstore It is an unbeatable winter setting—snow falling softly on quaint Victorian homes and globed street lamps, mountains
Cup of Joe
My heart throbs with the news that hospice has come to him, and it awakens me to what it can
Crones at a Campfire
We talk of how we are letting our hair be gray, letting ourselves be as we are.Sitting with the old,
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I Don’t Always Listen
I don’t always listen to the woods around me when I hike.Sure, I hear the humph of my shoes hitting
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Living In Discrimination
In the land of all and nothing,discrimination is the only weapon I haveto protect myself,to separate the fine food from
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Finn’s Wake
A Small Story of Untimely Things That Asks, “What Color is a Quilt?” It was the first sunny morning in