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Category Archives: Seasons

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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White rose in November blooming

November 11, 2017

as if you cannot wait for the snow, as if you open wide to remind us that November holds both …

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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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Visitation

September 24, 2017

Even the spires of milkweed bend over in the low tumble of wind through the prairie, dry reeds tapping hollow …

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Buddhista 3

June 22, 2017

It is a miracle that you survive day after long day in the cold, under rain, through whining wind. Once, …

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Buddhista 2

June 18, 2017

You sit on the stump of the old willow where last stood a luxurious swaying, deep shade for hot summer …

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Buddhista 1

June 15, 2017

I will buy for you a cedar box, red, fragrant when rain falls, broad and steady, and plant it near …

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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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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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Late Sunday prayertime

April 6, 2017

How the rain pours down with heavy boots on our roof. We hover close to our papers someways happier for …

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