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Category Archives: Memory

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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And our longings will meet

April 6, 2020

coming in the house with sand between your toes or mud covering your boots, you may pause by my old …

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The hill faraway

November 11, 2018

The hill stands innocent as it always has – empty now, or perhaps drowsily crossed by weekend strollers. What is …

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The history of my way through water

November 3, 2018

Does water remember as I make my way across her on this diagonal again? I clear a wake, paddles’ light …

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Geraniums (revised, again)

May 15, 2018

It begins with the scent of geraniums, bitter and hard, and my grandmother telling me not to touch because she …

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House in Bryan Woods

October 26, 2017

Driveway grooves into thicket, clearing, beyond first house now needing repair onto big house now overgrown by cedars rooted along …

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In ordinary time

October 3, 2017

Dust stirs as I walk to your door, hat by my side. Long pond lies still, weeds bending, expectant. How …

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In the middle of the night

June 4, 2017

How you pull me down and up at once. In you I see ancient, raw days when I brought something …

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Love like a river

April 26, 2017

Even the meek swell with water running down. Come now, spill yourself into our long water. Let it trail you …

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When the cold wind blows

April 12, 2017

Does it startle you, shake you from oblivion, draw you to attention, to your fear? Or do you turn away …

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