Come March

Poetry

Come March   The earliest signs of change come to us in red, come as the spring equinox reaches our forests and lakes: come as Robins rake the duff, dig for earthworms, Red-winged Blackbirds come, guard stands of sundecks with song, come glow the Maples that...

Surfaces

Poetry

Surfaces   Let’s leave the city and its stark, mirrored towers. Let’s walk under wintry skies until clouds rest in shapes of seclusion. There’s stillness,  silvery, along a frozen river and lost crowns gleaming on the riverbank, mussel shells. Milky skeletons, ...

94-Day Trek Across Antarctica, February 2001 

Poetry

94-Day Trek Across Antarctica, February 2001    The news in Sunday’s paper, history Was made with skiers: Ann and Liv on ice. They crossed Antarctica. Allegory For girls around the world (taught to be nice), Your life, your spice might break categories! Inspired,...

[There’s pain as fingertips stiffen like cattails]

Poetry

[There’s pain as fingertips stiffen like cattails]   There’s pain as fingertips stiffen like cattails. On frozen shores the snowbirds glean seed hulls. A winter storm deepens: cold, cold needles fall, mysterious clouds and squalls. The trails All snowy,...

The Pine

Poetry

The Pine   Suffers from a wound. Its resin flows like a stream down the trunk, forms a pool on an upper nook that overflows like a slow-motion cascade into the arms below. All the golden beads soon harden, done weeping become white as candle wax, suspend as...

Lake Breezes, Now and Before

Poetry

Lake Breezes, Now and Before By Melissa Kalinowski   I wish I might always wonder how they move frilled-willow branches, lift perfume from water lilies, wheel downy seeds to someplace new. I wish I might always feel their presence uplifting as bird songs that...