Sojourn
An open boat crossing takes the kind of luckthat survivors must carry on their backs.Being from another place is a …
Author Archives: Ronald E. Shields
Notes from Mystery Cave
TollThe wind rolls free for the taking.Jack pines complain, clouds curdle.The sun is a cardboard cutout,and we are silhouettes on …
Bluebird Love
For some Love is a monster in the closetwaiting in the darkness to pounce.For others Love is an angel guiding …
Family Portrait
Thirty years my father labored in a film factory.There is no evidence he ever took a picture.There is a family …
From Mystery Cave State Park
I came across this poem by Pat Schneider, The Patience of Ordinary Things, and I want to share it with …
Words Found in Mystery Cave
Knit 1 Purl 1The strands we weave to create the Life we have.They are corded by intimate familiarity,the conduit, braided …
A Walk in the Rain
Walking along with a head too full of nothing,out into a day that is too much of everything.A day made …
Wind Walking
Peonies jitterbug in rhythm with the wind.Mondo grasses slam dance in their shaggy mohawks.I waltz out the door and into …
Where it is…
In the activity beneath the surface,below the conscious permission I give to thought,that is where I find the poetry, such …
Found in Mystery Cave
Questions of Love …Is it in the genes? A behavior determined in our DNA?If it is wouldn’t we be better …
Poetry on the run 