Chapbook Contest 2020… Pull the Plug 13 Jun 202026 May 2020 Pull the plug and drain the shiny Moon to create a waterfall of luminescent liquid so we can fill the world with the happiness of moonbeams and all the people…
Chapbook Contest 2020… The Idea of Love at Troncones 12 Jun 202026 May 2020 At Troncones Beach a heron and an egret Fish together every morning One white one dark as the other’s shadow They are bonded by some force or another As I…
Chapbook Contest 2020… That Promise 10 Jun 202026 May 2020 It is not amazing how day moves into twilight and twilight to night except it is watching the slow, sure gradation of light leaving…
Chapbook Contest 2020… I Asked 9 Jun 202030 May 2020 I asked for sapdrawn from a woundI made on purposeto drain her life bloodjust a littleto render it downto a sweet, singing syrup,laughter of the mapleher scarlet dresseswarm and startlingagainst…
Chapbook Contest 2020… New Voice in Our Yard Yesterday 8 Jun 202026 May 2020 A voice I’ve never heard before spoke to me as I walked past the copse of oaks yesterday. I stopped. Listening to the pleasant sound in our back yard announcing…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Early Modern Junco 7 Jun 202030 May 2020 A winter’s gift to me:you, the dark-eyed commoner,winter’s executioner of seeds,hooded entertainer of kings,under laden boughs of snow,paused in your solemn deed,a frozen prayer nowbefore the flash and peckof your…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Windswept Verses #12 6 Jun 20207 Jun 2020 In a sugar-green valley I will waketo panes of glass that seal the skyridges of jagged teeth will teeter in the seaand in the east one vaporous peak residecloud-fleets will…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Surrogate Cloud 5 Jun 202026 May 2020 She was a droplet of a little rain wind storming, cloud already fleeting dropping lonely, gathering things: (partnering, parting) Freezing. Hailed me down, coolly nearing melting, kiss from moist lips…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Quality Time with a Spider 4 Jun 20204 Jun 2020 navigating its webfascinating and disconcerting (more fascinating while on the other side of the window) back and forthsuddenly in freefallyet across the windownot just downsoft landing on airthen deliberately climbing…
Chapbook Contest 2020… When Fox Writes About the Mountains 3 Jun 202028 May 2020 her father’s still alive and he is tellingher the tale of the black bear cubs,how they clambered through the cabin windowand tore every shelf down to the floor,gobbling crackers and…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Clarion Call 2 Jun 202026 May 2020 I hear the Clarion River call, she sings me wild. from deep within her rocky shoals, smoothed by fast and weedy waters, fed by snowmelt from the hills of ancient…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Dear Earth, 1 Jun 202026 May 2020 Dear Earth, You are the only nest I’ve ever known. My shelter; my sustainer. I have feathered and molted, held in your palm. In your forests, on your mountains, at…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Spider 31 May 202025 May 2020 Spider,spin your web for me.Fold me in silken cordshammock-likebeneath the stars.Swing me out over water –feel the rush –mother’s bloodwarmth of womb,beating heart.Gird me to the earth,silver strands,lissome in the…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Birds Save Me Daily 30 May 202021 May 2020 from the confines of thoughtmove me into momentsof pure perception: titmousechickadee, nuthatch, wren, woodpeckersmall feet grasping cold, metal cagesheads and necks stretching into holesbills biting seedwings carrying feathered bodiesback to…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Alchemy 28 May 202013 May 2020 I watch my mother’s ashes catch the air, scatter and dust the bark of the sugar maple she and my father planted the year before he died. Come spring I…
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