after a day of rain

after a day of rain white flowers before a young girl small songs upon the mist

Should The Question Beg For Answer

Should The Question Beg For Answer will the water be beautiful? will I thank every drop of the sea? the sky, will  it  be so blue, I’ll find ships sailing in the clouds? and emearald and hawthorn would i lay down there again? rise to wander mists by fairy lakes secret women drift in sleek [...]

old tom tabby

old tom tabby i wasn’t the only one saw you this a.m.   white tip tail dog elderly master no match for the lead.

ruff

and would I know the winter still sliding down silvering the window soft whispers smoke secrets between the kitchen fire and all those winter fires gone before each ghost arrives upon the gale welcomed here beside the hearth each breath of my own rare and gifted by such drifters

4.12.oz9

and would I know the winter still sliding down silvering the window soft whispers smoke secrets between the kitchen fire and all those winter fires gone before each ghost arrives upon the gale welcomed here beside the hearth each breath of my own rare and gifted by such drifters visible only in the smoke audible [...]

SOMETIMES IN THIS WRITING LIFE/3.12.0z9

SOMETIMES IN THIS WRITING LIFE On the cherry wood smooth As kisses table, Quiet as dust between The rafters, I spend hours Wanting for nothing more Than that dark French coffee And these American cigarettes. Between paisley shadows, Where the chestnut floor meets My cold feet I sweep Afternoon’s debris Into the fire Just after [...]

Healing

Healing : finding a way to be kind to what causes you pain.

20.nov.oz9

Lucinda Williams latest on the player. smell of steaming pumpkin gonna make a pie. tomorrow gonna do pumpkin ravioli. shellys out to pick up Morgan from school. cooking fresh beets to go with diner, will do a rosemary oven- roast potatoes – morgan love s the rosemary ( par boil or steam chunked potatoes with [...]

18.nov.oz9

  so heres the photo. pie was yum. wine not so much. will do a little wine blurb another day. no time now. must tend the fire n see if i can reason with the child regarding the fact that the crankier you get the harder the homework becomes. then take the dog for a [...]

another oz9 day

So all quite on the autumnal front. hazy kinda fuzzy sunlite afternoon. working on my newest poetry collection “Still Wishing To Be Ravens”. Lapwing has sent me final proofs of new book. Morgan n I are on the cover. 64 pages of poetry. Dennis says he should be able to send me a batch in [...]