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A to Z Blogging Challenge: F

Click on image for more A-ZF is for Fields  







Fields
My childhood was spent in the weeds,
in fields of untamed wheat growing blonde,
in grasses wide enough to call into.
The air was uncluttered.
Long fingers of stratus floated
like angel hair.

A wild place
spreads itself out into the open,
fallow and forgotten,
filling the world with a voice,
whispering
I am here
find me

Blogging A to Z Challenge: E

Click on image for more A-ZE is for Excavation  







Excavations
Somewhere, on the other
side of the planet,
they discover lost cities
on the silk route to China.
Somewhere they recover
the tomb of a pharaoh
dead four thousand years.

From my back porch, I
find that the rain
has stopped and that the lilacs,
which have burst suddenly
into bloom, fill the air
with the taste of purple.
The grass peculates green
and the dandelions sing,
yellow as little suns.

Somewhere, they unwrap
an Incan mummy and unravel
the mysteries of Atlantis.
I dig into the newly opened sky,
uncovering the archeology of clouds.

First published in the Poet's Unbound Anthology

Blogging A to Z Challenge: D

Click on image for more A-Z D is for Dreams



The Dreams of Old Locomotives

whistle up the wind,blow grass under the warmblack belly of steel.
The clicking wheels are a songacross the heartland, a songof arrival, the lyricmovement of one place to the nextover tracks that bracethe low flat prairies, connectingscarce trees. Tracks that rollinto green hills. The wheels listone way and the other over talltrestles and five-step rivers,past the graveyards that skirtcities, crossing town over townnestled in the temporary lull of sleep.
The long whistle singsa lullaby tothe empty street where the streetlampguards the gray roof and the front porch.
Those who sit and watchthe signal light flash its brightred warning and feelthe rumble of the sleekheated body as it curvesalong the river must always wonder--Which direction, which directionand can I go in that direction, too?

Blogging A to Z challenge: C

Click on image for more A-ZC is for CleavedCleaved
Walk pastthe oaks that line the avenue.The old school staresthrough bricks framed by town colors.
Wave backto pigtailed girls and crew cut boys,to varnished seats in neat brown rows,to a desk with the names of lovers to beetched inside a pencil heartcarved in a quick secretwhen faces turned to problemschalked across the board.
Hold onto that little heart scraped into the veneer.It belongs to you, you know.Somewhere between lunch and recessbetween letters and numbers,I left it there for you.

Blogging A to Z: B

Click on link for more A-ZB is for Blue HeronWith legs longlike a daddy spider,she wades on stiltsthrough water lilies tattedto the top of the riverthen frees her wingsto becomea great butterflyreflecting the dance of sunlike a silver laced kitefloating on a draftthen circlingslowlyearthward again.
first published in Bellowing Ark

Blogging A to Z: A

Click on link for more A-Z   A is for AlphabetAlphabetEach of us is a letter.It takes three of us to make sunfour to glowfive for peacemore are needed for obligationand for vigilance
Together we arethe story between coversbeginning, middle and end.Together we make chaptersof ache and longingof triumph and recompense
Remember it matterswhere you place the O of your wonderthe L of your laughterThe difference betweendarkness and lightis a matter of letters,of where you choose to stand.

P-Town Queen Book Trailer

The Book Trailer for the P-Town Queen!

Blogging A to Z challenge

Okay, I'm in. My muse, Boo, told me I've got to do it. She can be pretty insistent. So, even as my inner critic Zelda tells me I've sprung a leak in the thinking part of my brain, I've decided to go for it.
The challenge is to write a blog six days a week, Monday through Saturday,  for the month of April. The posts must be written in alphabetical order, each post corresponding to a letter of the alphabet.
Because April is National Poetry month, I've decided to post a poem a day for the challenge, using titles from A to Z. The first poem, Alphabet, will be coming at you next Monday.

If you'd like to learn more about the challenge, or if you'd like to join in, check out Blogging A to Z

Recipes from the Vineyard

hRecipes from the VineyardEighteen authors at Champagne Books share thirty recipes and the stories behind them.
It's available as a PDF file and it's FREE!Click on the cover, fill out the contact form and I'll send you a copy!

Sunday Snapshot: Drizzle at Mines Falls

Mines Falls Park Nashua NHToday is one of those cool rainy days.  The woods are lovely  regardless of weather.