For Kathy In the otherworldly sheen of the poorly placed light my oldest friend’s cheeks and forehead gleamed golden, her pink-fringed gray locks shone in that single wizened color.
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The Measure of What We Cannot See
Posted in Aging, Relationships on June 23, 2021 | 2 Comments »
I awoke in the endless stretch of 4 am, pre-dawn the longest span of pre-anything. The capacity to measure, surely, exists only when upright, eyes open to see the mark we place next to the beginning, the line we draw when we determine the end.
Being loved back / Un amor recíproco
Posted in Cerros, Guanajuato, Leaving, Love, México, tagged Cerros, Guanajuato, love on August 23, 2020 | 2 Comments »
The land loves us back. She loves us with beans and tomatoes, with roasting ears and blackberries and birdsongs. -Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants It is not enough to know I loved the land the cerros – too big to be hills, too small to […]
Obverse Pairs
Posted in Art, Relationships on April 14, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Pondering the Yamahira exhibit deconstruction is an art form
Genealogy of a Ghost
Posted in Bible Story, Legends and Mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Writing on August 27, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
I married the man from an unbroken line of cattle rustlers and outlaws misogynists and God-fearers hard drinkers and card players good-ole boys and long-suffering wives descendants of those with skin white enough to hold slaves own vast farmland distill spirits to make it through North Dakota winters and high plains droughts.