Category: Writing
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Season
While dark overtakes the daylight hours, summer asserts final bouts of heat, but night’s chill verifies it’s fall. Fall, as to lower, to go back, failing light.Like the trailing vines that ring the garden drying back their brittle leaves, wisely, the squashes remain; I relinquish energetic labor, slow the weeding and cultivating.Butternut squashes use late…
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Today
Inspired by Billy Collins’ poem If ever there were a spring day so perfect, so, uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze that it made you want to throw open all the windows in the house… By Billy Collins By River Brown If ever there were a day so clear, So clean lifted with fresh swirling…
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Staying
Inspired by the poem, The Gift, by Li-Young Lee To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he’d removed the iron sliver I thought I’d die from. Staying By River To stand and…
River Brown 