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One in the Blizzard

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on March 7, 2026| 4 Comments »


 
 
following tire tracks in the snow
the whole world
reduced to two lines

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One Unframeable

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 17, 2025| 2 Comments »


 
in a room of priceless art
I keep turning toward
my daughter’s smile

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The Skate Skier Talks to the Coyote Willows

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on November 27, 2011| 2 Comments »

You will remember how two weeks ago
I skied into you, right through the tall center
of your many red stems. How I fell.

I was transfixed by you at the base of the hill.
I forgot everything but willow. But
today I remember to train my eye

to corduroy snow, to follow its parallel
grooves through the gulley.
See how I slide up the other side with no effort.

It is not that I did not notice you,
your whispers, your slight bend
in the almost breeze, your tips waving

like sirens, your long slendernesses,
how easily you rise from snow toward sky.
I noticed and then curled my body into the curve,

looked ahead, became drift, became wind, became
current and passed you, slipping myself into
the next moment which is always, always passing.

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