You Have to Sweep the Temple Steps
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Christmas on the Coast from monica devine on Vimeo. Persimmons, birds-of-paradise green and blue, lovely Pacific breezes. Christmas in a warm place, where flowers are in bloom, and the air
Winter in Alaska from monica devine on Vimeo.In a few days, we’ll be on our way to California for Christmas with our grown children; away from the snow and cold,
At twenty below the moon comes up in blue daylight; our mattress, dense with sleeping bags and white feather pillows belies any sense of warmth-slash- comfort. (pretense):
Someone once said the opposite of play is not work: it’s depression. Play: a creative way to become un-balled up (my definition). To become un-self-conscious. Un-clutched. Un-moored & “in” the
A flyover state, Ioway Bahkho-je tribe distant fields of stubbled corn, bull thistle, white tailed deer. “We’re friendly”, insular with tranquil town squares, and backroad diners that say, eat cheap,
Reporter: Why don’t you write the way you talk? Gertrude Stein: Why don’t you read the way I write? What follows are poems I did not write. They are poems
the great wait-er you wait for the kids to get home from school so you can ask about their day, satisfied they’re happy as they were when they left you
A Dispatch from Alaska 1. Drive three hours on steep, snowy, narrow mountain roads. 2. Arrive. Assess the river: old
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you, as fish out of water hear the waves, or a hunting falcon hears the
Welcome to the creative playground of Image, Sculpture, Verse. I live in a river town nestled in the Chugach Mountain Range of Southcentral Alaska.
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