Adrienne Veronese

Turkey buzzard guards this delta from fence post perch to where Salt River runs to meet Eel & both snake as one to sea. Who salted that river with her tears? & why did she weep as her gaze turned to where it ran to join the mouth calling itself home singing itself to the […]

summer excuses itself & steps out onto the porch for one last look at the falling sun before taking up with the fog muttering something indecipherable about the allure of mysterious women summer’s child begins to suspect this may have been her last season of running in shorts through tall grass wanting nothing more than […]

Sky becomes a hovercraft of doom and I’m thinking, ‘now what?’ as I sit in the queue waiting to cross this quake-damaged bridge, shaken even more by the string of events that followed, reminding us of everything nature has to throw at us, leaving the bridge open to one-way traffic only, each determined repair challenged […]

at twenty I wrote a poem that would be a song sung by a woman in her twenties when I was sixty at thirty I wrote a poem that was a dream I had at twelve of a woman who is eternal at forty I found that place between the biding time and fully awake […]

Natives lived in those caves out behind the farmhouse, their artifacts trickle out with each new generation exploring the cool dark, carrying big sticks & fierce imaginations on their bear hunts. Timid beasts, those black bears, bold only for the brief run of salmon berry down along the creek. One winter the snow melted and […]

These are ancient wars we’ve been born into; they aren’t anything we haven’t known nor are they ever really comprehended by any of us yet rather than take that walk into the forest to learn what we need to know about the root of all things we just keep resurrecting what would be best laid […]