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Tag Archives: autumn
In which I post a recipe
It happens a lot that I will, on the fly, look through the piles of vegetables that I have pulled – in great armloads – from my garden and heaped onto my table and try and try to figure out … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, food as love, food as pleasure, garden, parenting, swiss chard, vegetarian cooking
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Today’s Poem: “Evening, By The Lake”
Evening, By The Lake The sky poured down onto the water, colors spilling from shore to shore – red gold midnight blue the glinting of stars the drape of clouds – rippled by waves and the night-cooled wind. A thousand … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, ducks, migration, nature writing, poem-a-day, poetry
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My kid is made of rubber. Or titanium. Or self-healing plastics.
Tonight, as the sun set and the light waned and the sky leaked orange and gold all over the lake and the whole world shone, Leo and I walked back from his Tae Kwan Do class. Or I walked. Leo … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, nature writing, parenting, raising boys, these kids are crazy
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Today’s Poem: Wind
Wind Open the doors throw wide the windows and let in the wind. Goodbye dust goodbye toys goodbye mail goodbye rugs goodbye stairs goodbye tables and chairs goodbye paintings and dishes and walls and shelves goodbye books abandoned and books … Continue reading
Today’s poem: “Love Letter”
Love Letter Against a windswept darkening sky, against the geometric bite of power lines, against the muddy brown field, bracing itself for snow – Four turning trees write a love letter to the sky. Red maple trees, and oh! red … Continue reading
Today’s Poem: “Even The Dead Are Breathing”
Even The Dead Are Breathing Ghosts crowd my open mouth – a damp visitation breathing in a cold mist breathing out – before skittering away like clouds.
