Happy Winter Solstice!   Here in south-central Alaska, our midday sunrise has rolled along the Chugach Mts. into a […]

December Bear My nape hairs rise as the bear saunters nearand I drop everythingto watch it move like water, or […]

  Hospitality   Here affirmed the crossbills here, and right here which is just the place  you had turned from […]

  Grace   Again you returned  to the break in the trees where an old nurse log lay, snow-drifted like […]

Complexity Sometimes I long for it, the simplicity of less,for then maybe I could hold it alland grasp some secret […]

  Phoenix   You stare, flustered by the candy apple sky   that licks at the day with overbright flames  […]

  Stones   Meet it with softness said the stones   and you turned, puzzled by the words that crunched  […]

  Change   You look longingly at the gap between birch root and moss seeing more than just  hole or […]

  Music   For years you have paused at this moss-crowned stump and listened    for something   sent  like […]

  Enough   There is more to it than  this   though it dazzles as wet leaves  like  iridescent scales […]