[To be published in Kitchen Table Quarterly, Jan 9, 2024] Purple-black and plump, still warm from the vine, like dandelion flowers or a sacred dusty crow feather in a child’s sweaty hand. I am treasure-seeker, willing to brush off soil, cut off moldy rind, reach through brambly thorns, past the green, yellow, orange and even […]
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A Handful of Blackberries
Posted in blackberries, Pacific Northwest, Reminiscences, summer on July 16, 2021 | 2 Comments »
We don’t speak of heaven in my tribe
Posted in Language, Mt. Rainier, Pacific Northwest on June 14, 2021 | 4 Comments »
Published in (Re)An Ideas Journal, Spring 2022, https://reideasjournal.com/drbonniepoem/ We have renamed what was once Tahoma, the Mother of Waters, a name that honored and revered, paid tribute to all we could be grateful for, instead insist on its adopted name, the family name of a British Navy Admiral who never washed in its waters, never […]
Still Life Smith Cove
Posted in Aging, Heron, Mortality, Pacific Northwest, Painting, Women on November 2, 2020 | 3 Comments »
Like the crone observing new life from her crooked-neck perch bones and sinews exposed as winter’s denuded branches time relaxed immeasurable and infinite the blue heron rests on the leafless limb its s-curved neck raising and turning languidly.