Tag Archives: Nature

A Bit of Summer Rain/ 4 Rainy Poems

It has been raining a bit around here, the gentle, cool, rain of late summer, a lot like spring. The season is shifting. The light is retreating in little backward steps to the tip-toe encroachment of shadows, the same dance, … Continue reading

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A Day at the Beach

I was just hanging out at low tide with some old friends and took some pictures. Nice. We have been blessed with the most perfect summer. I haven’t been to the beach in a long time even though there are … Continue reading

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2 poems that happened today

Summer Storm Day All night the storm grumbled around Lightning flickered through my eyelids With one tremendous crack-rumble ripping me out of loose sleep into the misty dripping dark in the morning my basement office cool gray light filtered through … Continue reading

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A Stoop is Close to a Fall

I She was not his hawk None but her own And preyed upon herself With talons shredding No soft hands or arms but wings spreading in down swirling push could not pull her free To bend the air Under her … Continue reading

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Art in Nature/ Andy Goldsworthy

I remember days losing myself in arranging rocks and driftwood on a beach, or weaving with plant stems, building river stone dams just to see what the materials and space and my body could make. Just to truly be in … Continue reading

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