Poet’s Corner: Almosts I glanced in the rear view mirror as I shiftedinto reverse, something bid me look again beforestepping on the gas. A round cheerful face [...] August 19, 2020
Magnolia My Twitter feed seems to be a longlist of people saying they have lost their mother, their brother or sister, their father, their [...] April 5, 2020
Poet’s Corner: Shift If you hold a sparrowin the cup of your hand,a found one, stunnedby the smash of glassthat was window not sky,forever after, when you see [...] October 13, 2019
Poet’s Corner: On Reading an Article Where a Man Says Hunting is the Only Way He Can Enjoy Nature It takes so little to enter the green world. It asks nothing of you, willing to hold youwithout fear or division as you wander in. Stand [...] October 4, 2019
Poet’s Corner – Salamander She pries back the lid of an old take-out food container and reveals him, mottled, dark and damp; he hisses. She speaks to him calmly, my [...] March 24, 2019
Poet’s Corner: Snapshot Snow melting on the buried lawns, only 8:00 a.m. and it’s twenty degrees warmer than yesterday. The black road is [...] March 6, 2019
Poet’s Corner: Mr. Grimshaw My daughter catches toads on summer nights when they fill the street in front of her house. When rain creates rivers of glistening light [...] June 17, 2018
Poet’s Corner – Talking If you couldn’t sleep, chances are you would find my mother in the kitchen at 3 A.M. with a cup of hot chocolate or maybe a cool [...] May 13, 2018