storm clouds over lake mi 080215 This is my first crack at trying a poetry form other than haiku. This one is called a Minute Poem, and I got it from shadow poetry.com . Please, any poets, feel free to correct/critique its mechanics! Clouds The fluff of clouds are good for things – they store…
Year: 2017
We write because we must
I took the prompt to free write with “We write because we must” in mind. Here it is: We Write Because We Must Tell our story Output of senses And soul Formulate words to express A thought a feeling To be a voice in the wilderness Keening, the sounds Travel like beacons To ears attuned…
Summer’s End
Summer’s End Cicadas’ chorus Replaced by crickets’ chirps Whoosh of leaves Replaced by rustle Sun as Close King Replaced by Retreating Prince Balmy breezes Replaced by chilled rushes Lounging waterside on beach towels Replaced by huddles on blanketed benches Trees arrayed with greenery Replaced by decaying colors Waking to light and sleeping still light Replaced…
“1952 Vincent Black Lightning,” by Richard Thompson
image linkimage link Years ago a friend of mine gave me a mix tape with this song on it. It tells a burning love story that has no end. The kind of love that usually crashes and burns. One day in 2006 I met my “young James”. ‘Tis true, my heart did thump at remembering…
The ‘Big Tree’ that Survived Hurricane Harvey
Trees are my friends. I have had a love affair with trees going since I was a small child. I regularly climbed the Stanley plum tree in my back yard. Our laundry was hung on lines strung between two oaks — in both our yard and in my grandparents’ yard. There was a spindly looking…
Pearl’s
Our boss, once a year, bequeaths us three days at a conference, hours north from an already northern place. It’s a luxury resort, off-season rates, and the run of the place. Folks from around the state convene, joined by a common profession. We speak the same language, we laugh at the same jokes. Vendors come…
i spy (aka driveway dirt hill)
This is how it started. A few months ago I ordered a lovely peony root from jungseed.com. Jung’s sends the root when it is time to be planted. The plan at the time of ordering was to put it in back in a open square where the rest of the peonies live. I went to…
Tao Talk 