December 2006
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Winter Solstice It was dark and cold and Grandmother said let’s make a picnic, we’ll hang the beaded sun on the ceiling, have lunch from a willow basket. She laid out great-grandmother’s quilt, orange and yellow and blue, a homespun lawn on the carpet, and I in my nightgown and she in her lavender… Continue reading
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Snapshot 20 December 02006
one day to solstice all my days grow short they begin late they end early today the sky is wide pale blue the radio plays its seasonal songs the sparrows sing theirs all my years contract they shrink they pass quickly i am carried through them by time and love and loyalty by persistent determined… Continue reading
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5 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About Me
Ryan tagged me with this Internet meme. It’s hard to think there might be much that readers of my blogs, or my About page, don’t already know about me, but let’s see what I can come up with: 1. My favorite movies are The Wizard of Oz and (brace yourself) Rocky. My favorite books are… Continue reading
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Today’s poem is from Cindy Smith
Chemotherapy Cindy Smith It should look more dangerous than this. They should pierce your vein with a rattlesnake. They should fill your shirt with snow. All these bare-skulled penitents know it’s true. This is… Continue reading
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Winter Branches
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys insitu_init_page_photo_description_div(‘299230118’); Continue reading
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