Tag Archives: wheel of the year

Hammond Pond Reservation, Green Line crossing

For five extra minutes you follow the path through mayapple, sarsaparilla and anxiety over a little hill and through what might be blueberry and poison ivy with beech and oak and maple rustling overhead to a pond, a flooded field … Continue reading

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empty pond, full sky

what does it mean to be empty and what does it mean to be full? empty air over the still glass surface of the pond empty belly geese make full-throated calls, expectant on a monday after the clocks change– magic … Continue reading

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two february haiku – sunlight, startled deer

afternoon sun slants shows the marsh in a new light witch hazel, hemlock three deer in the trees bound away with startled tails tiny wild island

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The move: after

Wednesday 12/21/2011 Solstice. The Longest Night. The shortest day. We wake at 6:00 a.m. or thereabouts, with the windows outside still black. Day dawns rainy, chilly, but not freezing cold; it’s in the 50s on the solstice. Still, we know … Continue reading

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january haiku – woods under snow

deep snow on the trail spreads the ground under dark bark winter. silence. here.

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August Moon Waxing

green acorns pink slips into night clouds take cover–seven pm blessed cool swim through the still-languid air sweat graces the back apples at the farmer’s market – Frances Donovan 8/19/2010

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