Fragile
Mother’s Hand-Antonas Sutkus This is the yard where babies cry, where kites fly where a warmly tended vegetable garden grows year after every perfect year where my three children dug […]
2013
Ring In the Bells With Menu
Apple Gorgonzola Salad * Caribou Tenderloin * Chili-Spiced Roasted Acorn Squash * Almond-Chocolate Blondies with Spirited Irish Coffee It’s almost Christmas; heavy blankets of snow are lounging on the
Snowshoe
Eighteen inches of new evidence, snow Come, walk with me said the river Walk into my world of monochrome black and white, slow the day is short and deep
Knot Tying
Knot Tying Do you know how to start an avocado plant from a pit? Treat and prevent food poisoning? Can you build a successful campfire? Do you know how
Freddezza
She served the supper guests, Falsetto’s Italiano working long hours on her feet, ice flagging the windows a full house of wine-warmed faces, by midnight she smelled like warm
Dedication
sweetly she sang for a swarm of us tucked into the dimly lit room sleeping snow outside, she grew still closed her eyes. when speaking softly is heard with a
Arctic
Eklutna Lake Back in the old days when there were no streetlamps we played outside after school under a bright moon. We were just kids then and we did not
The Whale Decides
The Whale Decides Rocky took me out on the pack ice by way of the captain, who granted us permission Like being on the moon. spring ice, blue snow white
BECOMING
You look at your bewildered face in the mirror, knowing or, maybe not knowing you are powerless to decide the day, to find your keys and lock the door
Molly
She is done with spreading, spreading her legs spreading brie on dry crackers, drinking wine from waxed paper cups It is true her life took shape as meandering clouds, thinly