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Water Mask (The Alaska Literary Series)
In Water Mask, Monica Devine skis woodland trails with her baby on her back, navigates sea ice with Beaufort Sea whalers and whirls two thousand feet above the tundra with a rookie bush pilot. She negotiates the death of her father, and the near loss of her family's cabin on the Copper River. Reflections on family, place, memory, work, perception and art are woven into a seductive tapestry...in a land that both beguiles and rejects.
A Month Alone
I am going into sequestration to learn how to create words both gentle & coarse where ...
Read More Anniversary
As of this Friday, I have been married to the same man for 33 years...and here's what cinched the deal over a quarter of a century ago: In the ...
Read More Find What You Love
Yesterday the leaves on the trees were clapping for you the wind all reckless and wild-fresh gusting with imaginings of us, of memories sloughed off with time yet lingering in ...
Read More Poetry of the Earth
We circum-navigate an island hemmed in by the sea Whisked to shore in a frenzy of exploration kelp beds squish and pop underfoot. Old mining camps and lodges left ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More We Are Stardust, We Are Golden
My brother sent me a cryptic email for my 60th birthday; all it said was: "Arrival On Earth" and my immediate response was: "I Have Landed" ...
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