Category Archives: Poetry

Morning after

I just heard a muffled crack in the distance, followed by a limb falling.  After every summer thunderstorm with distorting winds, we lose more huge branches, sometimes entire trees.  I appreciate all the work that arborists and volunteering neighbors have … Continue reading

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Amethyst Brook

I went walking in the woods with her and came home with a white stone in my pocket and cuffs full of hemlock.  I went to bed alone wearing the same pants, and woke with tiny needles all over the … Continue reading

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Mt. Holyoke haiku

On the darkest night I mistook the college clock tower for the moon.

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