Continue Reading Early/Late/Early Yesterday I was early for a meeting with a friend. Decided to walk around the block when a building caught my eye…
Continue Reading At Knife’s Edge You may choose today between a poem by a man who prefers to be a mystery and a man whose wife descended…
Continue Reading Fine Dining Today’s blog serves as a Thank You note to a dear friend who invited us to a splendid dinner on Saturday. I…
Continue Reading Exquisite Gorge 3: The Listener How does an artist decide which questions to raise and which, if any, answers to provide? How does an educator reach their…
Continue Reading My homeland Today you get a simple (could not echo the rhyming) translation of a poem that appeared in a German newspaper yesterday. Written…
Continue Reading Joy Harjo Yesterday I learned that Joy Harjo has been appointed as new US poet laureate, the first Native American to fill this role….
Continue Reading Fraught Freight With the oil boom in North Dakota and the extraction of Canadian tar sands, shipment of crude through the states of Washington…
Continue Reading Exquisite Gorge 2: The Witness How do you tell a story that is not necessarily your own? How do you draw a landscape that did not always…
Continue Reading Jacksonville Medley I fear all those nice folks who recently signed up for the blog expecting political discourse are in for a rude (if…
Continue Reading Bandon Rocks While my husband communed with the DA in Coquille, I communed with the dead in Bandon. The dead seals, that is, found…
