Charred trees stand still/ The baggage is too strong/ With the smoke drifting over the paddock,/ carbon

Through an open window/ he hears the warm clip of conversation/ from a neighbour’s garden,/ and, though he

Night descended,/ On my little blue quilt,/ Of seas and shadows,/ And a beetle shuffling through the woods

The seagulls glided along the waves as the water flapped against our boat. The journey was rough and exciting

Green curtain of the polar light/ falls on boreal forests/ so wide/ the taiga, so infinitely far the horizon,/ unattainable

Clear and austere stands the embracing air;/ trees stretch their bronze-gold branches,/ wine winds purple

Might is/ Something/ Born/ I have known to observe/ At a stranger/ During my entire/ Life.// I have known

Ancients – pre-delusion – were part/of Nature with wolf instincts plus/knack for creating tools/weapons.

Anxiety is the bluebird/through air rippling sounds/of all flags in my ear,/finding my shoulder// A voice from

The sky walks into a bar./ The sky?/ What sky?/ The sky walks into a bar?/ No, this guy. T-h-i-s

Nothing matched the pain/ in my neighbor’s eyes/ when he told me/ his grandson died suddenly:/ “Of an

Render unto Caesar, sayeth the taxman,/ his face like a final demand,/ his face like a stormy Monday

Our daughter Jasmine grew troublesome that year. She complained about school, talked about boys, and

I carry your dolichocephalic face in/ a woolpack of memory. Your eyes/ laden with guilt or some such

I admit to having issues with my appearance/ I have compared my body to a sack of potatoes/ Even though I

For much of Cindy’s life, people she encountered in the medical world had one attribute in common:

On the edge of the witches’ well in the garden,/ angels breathe their summer spell in the garden.// A child’s

Those first creepy foreshadowings/ will occur before you reach the lodge/ or campsite or lake: little

Camouflage desires and wishes run your life/ You don’t know why the sun shines. How important is the sun

I’m sitting atop a mountain/ falling rock below me/ tipsy mountainous rock above/ I sit in my car/ penning