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Category Archives: Work life

Tanka for working from home

March 23, 2020

In interesting times, I write at my son’s old desk cut into his closet stuffed with childhood remnants curse, avalanche …

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Pond and Brook

December 11, 2018

I leave my Pond and Brook by the bedside, with its buzzing mayflies, fin-splashed surface, amoeba-soaked beach, and head downstairs, …

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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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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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It is no wonder

June 27, 2017

Is it a wonder that I am more drawn to watching the birds flit than to reading your words, again? …

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To William Stafford

March 18, 2017

Upon opening The Way It Is after a week that convinces me that this dark marathon is much longer than …

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On healing and revolution

December 3, 2016

Gazing up this terrible mountain, you say, love is not enough, though when I add together everything else and stack …

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When digging in my garden

July 30, 2016

Open spade cleaves mud, unwraps under-earth’s treasure-trove — twisted wires of plant roots clinging deep, no repentance, no shame. I …

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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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