The sun is out in the sky and the river is surely flowing as it always is. We’ll float on down it with the birds singing from the banks and us laughing in the canoes, talking about the flowers on shore and the fish swimming below and the ducks exploding from their hidden nests. The [...]
Unknown forest roads stretching around wooded bends and over hills. Reading four maps at once, studying the faintest lines, guessing at the passability of the next turn. Stopping in the middle of untraveled roads to take photos of solitary stands of red pine in a recent clear cut, or of an ancient outcropping the size [...]
The sky came out today. Two patches of blue breaking through the omnipresent clouds of the past week, seen through my window. It’s enough to make me blink and squint and wonder what I’m doing typing inside. I have long been fascinated by how quickly a sustained and intense experience can be lost in the [...]
It does feel like I went to sleep one night and woke up the next morning in late fall. If it weren’t for the deep, fresh green of the trees it could be November. The air is wet and the skies are gray and the temperatures cool. It is of course a small disappointment. As [...]
I’m thinking about snapping the bottoms off stalks of asparagus, a regular ritual the past couple months. Standing over the sink, the radio on, other cooking activity behind me, the quick task of two servings of asparagus in my hands. The season is probably tapering off now, but new harvests are just beginning. And I’m [...]
I traveled through a fine, cold mist all weekend. Unlikely temperatures for June, more appropriate for November, led to extra layers of clothing and the type of introspection befitting autumn. My rambling took me to a friend’s house last night where the neighboring house, a foreclosure with a sheriff’s notice on the door last time [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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