Four decades on, I disrobe to swim,
a lumbering seal to the reed I was, and I look
away—no longer in horror.
Time Like Bread
I will make time.
I will form it with
my hands like
bread.
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Be Sure To Show Your Work
A bus takes two days
to reach your destination.
Better bring pizza.
Minus Tide
Uneven runnels between larger outcrops
deepen, getting out to the surf-spray edge,
where waves confront black rocks in loud wallops.
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Where are the songs?
That was then and this is now,
with a world still living with too much the same.
Times moving faster, disparities widening, racism raising,
reeling, searching for an anthem, trying to find the right song…
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Drift Boats on the Klickitat
This is a hastening tributary —
it’s not the wider river
with headwaters gathered in the Rockies
which divulges its volume beyond Astoria.
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The Owls of Oslo
The Owls of Oslo
I cannot see
I hear them over the din of cars
and bells
and the drunken cacophony
of Saturday evening
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Offspring
The Deer raise their brown heads
to make contact by eyes
and seem to acknowledge,
I’m the harmless neighbor.
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Everlast
Medicine smoke circles
Over me
Rising
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Two Poems
Hazel catkins swell and stretch,
not long till budburst. Back home,
chickadees have found the feeders
at last! Feared they weren’t coming
at all this year—but here they are.
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