Category Archives: Notes

City. Water Tanks. Summer. Country. Barn Flowers. Summer.

Fruit Over on Broadway a fruit vendor hovers around the north-west corner stacking lemons and limes and apples. Some roll off the cart and onto the sidewalk and tumble through a stenciled meme, which might as well be cycling around Read More

There are rocks with words scattered on my desk, magic, courage, things like that. ~me, NYC.

This week has been heartbreaking. When it feels like there’s nothing to hold us, not enough unity to bind us, what do we do? Where do we turn? Poetry can offer some refuge. Poetry can be a prayer. Leaves heavy Read More

Things To Be Celebrated The fireplace is free of ash except for shards burnt and transformed almost charcoal during  the last spring cold snap. Those bits fall when they please against the flue—so we are again in need of the Read More

Summer House In pre-Memorial Day heat, this becomes a summer house. What elegance that conjures, veranda doors thrown open, green expanses trailing down to the sea. White covers lifted from love seats and French chairs, pillows fluffed and ready to Read More

April is National Poetry month, and I’m writing a lot! I’ll post new poems in progress on my Writing page, so click over and check out the new work. On the country golf course a softness of greening willows fades Read More