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Check out the new website updates! Recent publications downloadable from the sidebar and a few new obsessions… Tonight’s poem, which I read at Eve’s Night Out. A work in progress, but still [...]

My parents and I leave early to drive to Tinytown and see the place I will be moving into. I ask dad to drive so that I can study the way the land moves and where the river crossings are. It’s [...]

I have been avoiding the blog because I am utterly overwhelmed, but tonight a friend asked me: “Are you laying off the blog for a while?” I had to take pause. Really, I had no intentions of doing [...]

Spring never ceases to amaze me. But it’s not the first blooming crocus. Not the daffodil hanging heavy after a cold snap. Not even the return of the blue bird, two of which chirped and chased up [...]

(Imagery borrowed heavily from Dana Levin’s In the Surgical Theater) I read your surgical theateryour bloody edge beneath the scalpelyour angels hovering with wing beats like the heartyour dying [...]

Please, Would You Come Stay I miss every part of youbut especially the way yougently bite my lower lipwhile we we’re kissing and it’s not re-living that I’m after,so much asa [...]

Anniversaries What was it you said aboutpatience, justice, faith, lovethat was lost on me somewhere betweenyour cancers and your chemosyour Navajo healing soilyour raiki andyour chocolate peanut [...]

Today: chickadees, tufted titmouse, white-breasted nuthatch, robins, mourning doves, and more. Buds burst from the branches and the valley cooks with the anticipation of spring. Voles dart across [...]

On the eve of a regular schedule, I find my mind in high-goal-gear and by evening I have exhausted myself by simply considering the possibilities. I know this much from last season: In order to [...]

Today is opening day at the coffeehouse and although Saturdays are not my shift, the manager and I work in order to set the systems straight and plan for the upcoming season. I take heavy doses [...]