Calmly We Walk …

“Each minute bursts in the burning room,   
The great globe reels in the solar fire,   
Spinning the trivial and unique away.
(How all things flash! How all things flare!)   
What am I now that I was then?   
May memory restore again and again   
The smallest color of the smallest day:   … Read the rest

I know

It’s January and I get a text. It’s from Brad. He says he’s coming in from California for a few days and wants to hang. Excellent! I tell him I’ll spread the word. I’m sure I can wrangle some of friends to make it a bigger gathering. “Not necessary. I’m … Read the rest

It has been so wet stones glaze in moss;
everything blooms coldly.

I expect you. I thought one night it was you
at the base of the drive, you at the foot of the stairs,

you in a shiver of light, but each time
leaves in wind revealed themselves,

the … Read the rest

Just a cat

“I want a dog!”

And not just any dog, my daughter wants (No! Needs!) a small fluffy dog she could love and who would love her back. “I promise I’ll walk it three times a day.” Promises.

How about a cat?

“Two cats?

One cat. One is enough … … Read the rest

December

This December I’ve spent time buying gifts, reading, socializing, exploring and searching for a lawyer.

Last December I did much the same. But last year I had what was later diagnosed as pneumonia. A doctor, not my doctor he was too busy with other patients, took my temperature and stuck … Read the rest

Sunset

Summertime evenings on the hill watching her play.  New faces, new playmates.

Tag! You’re it!

The setting sun, warm west winds , and sloping seas of wildflowers wave …

Those are called Queen Anne’s Lace.

Do you know who Queen Anne was?  Neither do I.  Want to walk?

Can I Read the rest

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, & what
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