Apaja'simk - To Return Girl Setting Out at Dusk 7 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 Drawing her hands through her hair She wove a braid from shoulder to waist, Facing the rough bark As if it were a looking glass. She gathered memories enough. Handkerchief…
Apaja'simk - To Return Blossoming 6 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 Fierce winds marked the awakening spring blowing into some future time that chill lodged for months in sparse branches. My dogwood held strong green berries bumpling from its charcoal arms…
Apaja'simk - To Return Instructions for Early Days of Retirement 5 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 Come inside. Quit the crusade on squirrels. We have no use for those berries anyway. Let me brush aside stubborn snow stuck to the shoulder pads of your wool coat.…
Apaja'simk - To Return Good Morning, Beautiful 4 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 Morning returns, slowly, wildly opening, as if the old window of an abandoned house. Morning always returns, even if you aren’t ready, even if you try not to show up.…
Apaja'simk - To Return How to Grow Canna Lilies in Minnesota 3 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 On the weekend before the first hard frost, cry a little as you chop down the strong, gorgeous stalks. Play Palm Sunday with the cat with the waxy leaves to…
Apaja'simk - To Return Cranes 2 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 or tsuru, in Japanese, are signs of longevity, good luck, and happiness. Today is my older brother’s birthday, in a few more months, I’ll turn 35 and outlive him. Finishing…
Apaja'simk - To Return From Winter 1 Mar 202221 Feb 2022 March skies enshroud hold tight while loosening threads unweave winter leave strings broken into spring spring into broken strings leave winter unweave threads loosening while tight hold splits tombs April…
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