Three More From Mystery Cave
After Reading a Line About Love“I am trying, but I just can’t see how it’s done.”Oh, to be at once …
Monthly Archives: February 2022
Summer Sunset
It is a bleak winter day and I am longing for a warm, golden sunset… Observation…light from the setting sunpaused …
From Mystery Cave
ChildhoodJust a child, owl-eyed,touched by darkness.Standing now in sober light,dark-rimmed circles dilate, shut,another rider on the wheel. PrismThis life we …
Lighthouse
Painting by Edward Hopper, Lighthouse and Buildings, Portland Head, 1927
To the Vine Clematis Montana
after May Swenson Seven dayssince the first green nipple appearedfrom the underworld of water and root.Seizing the stone wall,hitch and …
Polishing Rocks
Polishing rocks can be an art form,the lapidary skill,stones in a tumbling drumto smooth the edges that pull at loose …
Three From Mystery Cave
Truthis like the light of a million stars,distant, cold, hard, brilliant,but this initial light,shining on the wet black roadis closer …
From Mystery Cave
“Nature includes too muchand art can’t include enough.”A. R. Ammons, “An Improvisation for the Stately Dwelling” Prairie grass glows golden,the …
Say a Little Prayer
Intricate decisions dissolve,indecisions lead deeper into the labyrinth.Poor passing facts long for the grace of accuracy, When I am threadbare,anything …
Two From Mystery Cave
Walking in the SurfThe tide on the beach is slow, quiet,this whisper of water on sand,no one speaks like the …
Poetry on the run 