Stratum
Gliding down a shoot The river’s smooth tongue pulls …
Hither and yon
Sun. Stone. Sky
Annie Leibovitz These pastels, handmade by the late painter, Georgia O’Keefe, were colored with ingredients found in the local landscape at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Every day on …
Side roads: Marquette, Michigan
house on Front Street, North Side Roads we could rent a sailboat, coast smooth stone beaches gorge on walleye cakes, whitefish in the soft shell. we could stop at a …
graveyard dredge: a poem
I it’s hard to think now, how men with their shovelfuls and boatloads and sideroads mixed the best color, the good rock, the pay streak, the bedrock. Get a good …
Go Where The Trail Takes You
Cabin near Gunsight Mountain The author-illustrator, Tomi Ungerer said, name your destiny’s destination. We didn’t have a specific Point B on our ride across the tundra on the backs of …
To “Summer” in the Sound
What was I doing while Husband plied the waters of Prince William Sound in his buddy’s boat for 4 days? It was a trip to make repairs on the first …
Coming Home, The Let Down
Wendell Berry, noted Kentucky author and poet, has made the observation that after a long plane trip, he allows three days for his soul to catch up with his …
Thought Bubbles, Random Squiggles
While hiking in the mountains with friends, I began to take notice of how much my mind jumps around from subject to subject on those steep, uphill climbs to the …
Ancestress
I am an old woman sitting on the beach pink scarf holding back windblown hair a mother makes …
I Have Fallen Into the Sun
Like failed planets and moons that have lost their mass, I too, have fallen into the sun. Amplified sunlight to the nth power re-quires re-calibration, a separate orientation. We, the …