Monday, July 21, 2025

moving

things in every little corner 
and closet in this house that need to go 
or get boxed up for the movers 
32 years worth of papers and pictures 
and shoes and dishes 
and dvds and cds and books
and electronics and clothes 
and nick knacks and vases 
and tea and winter boots 
and all the pictures on the walls 
that point to other places and 
people with their own piles of things


Saturday, May 31, 2025

what May brings

heat waves 
snow 
wind 
wildfires 
hot hazy skies 
walks outside 
summer clothes  
open windows 

what springs in may 
day lilies lilacs 
lawn growth 
dandelions 
leaves bud out 
rhubarb 

what we bring to May
getting ready to move 
leaving our home of 31 years 
soccer and croquet in the yard 
fire pit 
hot dogs 
another 1000 words for Norah 
sitting in the sunroom 
watching birds 
watching baseball in all weather 
Hockey playoffs

bringing what may

Thursday, March 20, 2025

v and j sisters

we are at brunch 

outside are goats and rabbits 
and snow in the woods 

they spent days talking and puzzling 
and watching Britbox 

today in the picture V wears pink 
and J has a red sweater  

they raise their mugs of coffee and smile 
on the verge of a laugh 

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

February 2025

mounds of snow on 
our front yard a few rabbit footprints
and my love is outside scraping and shovelling 

adding to the mounds 
love piling up in this frigid winter 
rabbits finding warmth

Friday, February 14, 2025

Claire newborn


we wear masks to hold her 
this tiny girl with 
little lungs 
asleep with soother 

and we  are pierced 
through the heart by this little love 
so trusting and beautiful 
we don’t notice our masks