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  The Spinning Tree   The tree and the sun spun gold out of  snow   as if straw was […]

Winter Light   With a dragon’s palette  it beckons   drawing your gaze from the vast snow-furring that weighs each […]

What happens when we allow ourselves to go to pieces?

  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  […]