Perspective
In the corner of the window,slumps an old gray cobweb.No longer gossamer,it holds the spring pollenin its dull clumpen strands.At the edge of the web,a long dead mayfly tremblesin the wind, its...
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Love Letter to Vincent at the Saint-Remy Mental Asylum
inspired by “The Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh and the piano composition by Kayleen Asbo by the same nameAnything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.―George Washington CarverYou teach...
View ArticleGrand Scale
Today I am grateful to remember I’m small—a woman who lives in a deep river canyonsurrounded by fourteen-thousand foot peaksin state the size of New Zealandin the fourth largest country on Earthon the...
View ArticleChange in Perspective
Everything is made of simple forms,said the art teacher—a car, the body, everything.And for the first time in my life,I saw myself as an assemblageof cylinders, spheres, cubes and cones.It was...
View ArticleSurprise Treasure
There was that yearwhen my motherturned used ribbons,thin paper platesand gold-painted plastic grapesinto a celebration.Our small family sataround an old oak tableand made hatsfrom the strange...
View ArticleReturning to Stillness
I can’t unnotice this fistthat has grabbed my chestand squeezes it hard, this prickly balloonthat seems to have blown itself upin my belly. To be still todayis to notice that so much inside meis...
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And the mountains roseand eroded completelyand the great sea flooded alland the great sea left andthe great sea flooded and left againand the land was forced up,and then pulled from both sidesuntil...
View ArticleAn Opening
Mourning settles in like a midwinter storm,clouds low, snow thick in the trees,snow thick on the rooftops, thickin the road where you’re forced to go slowif you go anywhere at all—squall after squall...
View ArticleNew Eyes
But I’m sad, I said.And the worldwas unrelentinglyfilled with good.Weaving into the acheand loss and dreadwas the moon as it rosein fuzzy white gauze,luminous behind thin clouds.Was the womanwho made...
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