Clearing
In my new book, I have two poems called Clearing. [...]
Trees turned and talked to me
The news with its litany of loss, anxiety and uncertainty [...]
Thinking like a plant
Fallen magnolia petals There's an area of ancient woodland at [...]
Ordinary life: the plenty and thick of it.
This disarmingly simple poem by Lisel Mueller is called [...]
Teach a thing its loveliness
I can’t keep out of the garden. I am [...]
How can I move to September while he remains in August?
In poetry therapy and expressive writing groups, loss is always [...]
It wobbled once or twice
So much for the Christmas catch-up! The plan to blog [...]
An angel whose face I couldn’t see
5th Day of Christmas Catch-Up Blog Gertrude Stein famously said [...]
On the tongue on the eyes on the ears
I’m a bit of a zumba bore but I can [...]
Where can we live but days?
What a beautiful day. Ash Wednesday came and woke me [...]
