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    Forgiven   You’re forgiven, said the moon   with a wink at the dawn and a meaningful look  […]

  Spring   Between cornice and crevasse you have drifted   burying what hurts  in a rough sliding thunder   […]

  Chickadee   Look again it sang look again   while bending its sensible slide whistle notes to wrap  around […]

  The Tending   He paused at the bending hand-shaped like the sea    when it draws down the sky […]

  Lynx   As your breath hangs in clouds over snowsqueak and twigsnap lynx move as melting their tufting in […]

  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 […]