Category Archives: wheel of the year

The Nightingale

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

They pipe the music outdoors because– I don’t know why, because money, because we can’t stand the sound of our own heartbeats, or the peepers in the woods on a spring night still so chill the shoppers run from store … Continue reading →

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A few notes about April, National Poetry Month, and related or tangential topics

Posted on April 15, 2013 by

A few notes about April, National Poetry Month, and related or tangential topics: April is the cruelest month because it is neither one thing nor another. Especially in Boston, it is neither the callused braw of midwinter, nor the soft … Continue reading →

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Snow

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

softens the edges of things shows us which way is up settles the earth in her slumber makes us stop and watch because if we hurry through we slip or worse never notice its miracle in single flake or aggregate … Continue reading →

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Jamaica Pond after sunset

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

You long for a dark open field– dark skies against the darker land– but you will settle for this, the old pond who spreads always, calm and shining inside its ring of traffic and asphalt Its ribbon of trees bare … Continue reading →

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April on its way

Posted on March 22, 2013 by

the sun the snow the open window

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Icicle

Posted on March 8, 2013 by

Icicle hangs from the tip of a broken tree joint New growth the red of old blood Snow falls in whispers from the white sky Comma-clatter-rasp of a woodpecker                      and two ravens (first draft: Jan 8, 2011)

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2012 in Review

Posted on January 1, 2013 by

Snow Opens the Ground Communal Dumpster Etiquette Sun Opens our Coats RIP Adrienne Rich Drama of the Disoriented Traveler Fire and the Love Eye both Transform Facts about the ACA, aka Obamacare When the Chainsaw Falls Still Through the Gates, … Continue reading →

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Day 15: moment in the sun

Posted on November 15, 2012 by

This morning on my daily walk, the woods were bare, barren, still in disarray after Sandy. Branches and whole trees strewn across the trails, the trails themselves obscured under a carpet of rust-colored oak and beech leaves. I’m fortunate enough … Continue reading →

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the shoe, the end of summer

Posted on September 17, 2012 by

on the wet grass beside the park a lone summer shoe glitters         despite the clouds I am late already but the shoe calls, begging to be slipped onto the delicate feet of a princess         not yet discovered

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high summer

Posted on August 22, 2012 by

grass high and dry and              seeded as wheat tips too close for focus belly on the blanket beside it a bowl of blueberries, almost gone the rain pretends to come but no one cares not even the cat written july … Continue reading →

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