Winter’s Heartbeat
We walked the quiet woods, cameras dangling from our necks, the air cold and still. Soon our steps became further spaced as you wandered away, following the scent of […]
Pleistocene
Human artifacts poke out of the ice: a thermos of coffee, magazines, a woman’s purse, shoes, a child’s doll: intact after the plane crashed in icy blue mountains circling the
Twin Sons of Different Mothers
No matter how you parse it, I live in a world of black and white a great deal of the time, during the winter season. When the sun doesn’t shine,
Annunciation
Time and time again, I’ve had a recurring dream. I am riding my bike toward a large, Victorian house on a pleasant, tree-lined street. I stop in front of the
Snow City
Only 2 cents per acre Seward’s folly, “Wal-russia” tent city at the mouth of Ship Creek, 1914 where Quonset huts were first homes, “a half tin can turned on its
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
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