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Category Archives: Aging

Old elm (revised)

April 14, 2020

Abandoned farmhouse, graying outbuildings. In your final winter, you stood with empty, cracking branches to tell us plain that your …

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Finding things lost

October 4, 2018

I no longer trust myself having searched all morning for the missing piece in our endless jigsaw and come up …

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My father finds comfort in crows

May 3, 2017

Inexplicable. That is what I say when you tell me and all I can do is shrug and count: How …

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An Easter thought

April 14, 2017

It does not seem fair in all the measures of life that our heavy ways hang in expectance on these …

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The heart needs good work

January 26, 2017

All that comes to me now is the prairie, how it is empty to the casual eye, how you walk …

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Worth staying for

December 3, 2016

Dusts of snow edge the earth, uneven lines mark sun-warmed pavers. With under-parts protected, statuary gather new relief, dying grasses …

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Waiting for the doctor

November 10, 2016

hazy dry, as if in midair distant beeps, rattles, blood pressure cuff wheezing up, releasing, hour after hour, day may …

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I think of love

August 26, 2016

I think of love as something that grows form as it ages, sometimes firm, sometimes round, broadening, ambling if allowed. …

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From the ether

July 22, 2016

Late in the afternoon that day, as the low sun pierced the leaves like a thousand glimmering stars, each of …

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When walking through woods without my father

July 13, 2016

I am not sure if it is the breeze, wilder, more freeing than any in the city, or the wintergreen …

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