solstice
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WinterSolstice
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 dress, ate tuna… Continue reading
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Summer SolsticeSitka 1993
This day blooms under wide meadows of sky. We lay our sun-stunned bodies in constellations of clover and buttercups. Salmonberry bubbles of sweet red light break on our tongues. Shooting stars in the flowerbeds, pollen in our sheets. For an audio post of this poem, go here. Continue reading

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