crates | August 28, 2008
Just before my father and I left Florida we saw some people fishing from the beach at Navarre. My father is an avid fisherman. I can think of few things that captures his attention as much as fishing does. I like to fish, especially when I was a [...]
crates | August 23, 2008
Indifference
For many years I have gazed
at the painting you did for me,
telling me that if I should ever
decide to come back,
I could use your mother’s
address hidden inside
the frame to contact you.
I’ve never looked
I’m afraid.
Every August when I return from Texas, I find the forest about my home curiously silent. When I leave in mid-July the forest is [...]
crates | August 21, 2008
Here’s a little fellow that I found the other day while pruning my Rhododendron beside my driveway. It is the Banana Slug (Ariolimax columbianus) which is said to be the second largest slug in the world. They are usually the color that you see here up here in the Northwest…also often an olive yellow, sometimes [...]
crates | August 17, 2008
Blackberries
We were just friends when
you tripped on the blackberry vine.
I got to my knees beside you and
Helped pick out the thorns,
Putting your fingers in my mouth to
Bite them out with my teeth.
Then to make you laugh I fed you
Sun-warmed blackberries
Lying there in the grass, and
Then I kissed you,tasting the
Blackberry juice on your
Lips and tongue.
[...]
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