Perspective, again

My daughter, a veterinarian, has had a wide range of experiences with animals–working at an equid center in Morocco and on a sheep farm in Scotland, observing the feeding habits of platypuses…

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Poetry online

Suddenly the humidity rolls away and the temperatures drop and, with shorter days, the tomatoes stop ripening. Some of them start to rot on the vine; it’s time to start pulling up vines and c…

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Canary - A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis

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Re-reading, re-learning

Circumstances being what they are, too numerous to mention here, I continue amid distraction and creative malaise. To counter the mood, and to educate myself, I turn to poetry. Often I buy or borro…

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Radio Nowhere

Some days, this, from Bruce Springsteen… I was tryin’ to find my way homeBut all I heard was a droneBouncing off a satelliteCrushin’ the last lone American nightThis is radio nowh…

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Ellipsis…

“ellipsis(n.) 1560s, “an ellipse” in geometry, from Latin ellipsis, from Greek elleipsis “a falling short, defect, ellipse in grammar,” noun of action from elleipein &…

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Cadralor Issue 11

Gleam Issue 11 The following poems were selected by the editors for Issue 11 of Gleam: Singing the Earth Song, by Rose Mary BoehmWhen it is Today, by Jamey BoelhowerAnother thing to Aware, by Kate …

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Hornworms

Late summer, and this year the tomato hornworms are out in force. I have mixed feelings about these creatures, because once they hatch into hawk or sphinx moths, they are wonderful pollinators for …

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Comfort in words

July was a tough month and August is busy, so I won’t be reading 31 poetry books for the Sealey Challenge this year. I have managed to read two lovely collections from Jacar Press, however, t…

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Imaginary travels

We recently entered a lovely, small, independent bookshop with our youngest niece (13) and nephew (10), both of whom enjoy reading books. The bookseller had taken wise advantage of the release of C…

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Endeavoring

When I start on a project, process, garden, or trip, I tend to think of it as an endeavor. I have my own understanding of the word, but I thought it might be wise to see what its background is. Acc…

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Departures

Many years ago, I drafted a poem that I worked on awhile and considered finished. I sent it out a few places, and then realized it wasn’t ready after all. I shelved it for a long while, then …

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