Home is in the Bay,Despite many years away.Living in cities and towns far from the ocean,Coming back every summer like a devotion. So many moves over so many years,Through celebrations, […]
We’d once show love and affection,Through hugs and connection,And not just random faces on screens. She’s trying so hard to understandAll this technology, now at hand,And what this new experience […]
So near, so distantAir so softly white, tremblingTouches me gently
Convergence of disparate worlds of the mindUnaligned—a confident dissonanceHostile—the mundane trivialization of lifeArrogance forcing its philosophy as a means to controlSanity through manipulationA conformation of the soul that protects the […]
Through her eyeswe are all drawnin to the oceanto the winterin our baythe storiesshe can tellof times gone byhow the wrinkles formedupon her cheeksfrom experiences long agothe green glass vasecould […]
Broken, blackened branches,sculpted by fire –Nova Scotian bonsai. by Lynn Reicker
Outside, the drifting snow accumulates on pine trees reaching toward a goose-grey sky. I watch a solitary Blue Jay fly where fading light at dusk illuminates the tracks a deer […]
Whenever I seemy stonesa three,I pause—to know,to sigh, to be.In all I have done,or not, or failed—in allof this,my three prevailed.My three who workedtheir way to me,to crack the calm,the […]
They’re terrible birds,says my granddad, an old farmer.Eating the crops, making a mess.We always used to shoot themwhen I was a boy. I watch for them,to see them glide and […]
