Big-bellied rats have taken over Dining in broad daylight Quarreling over top spot, Well-guarded by an old crow named Jim. I will not tend the feeders Not until spring When blue skies fill with birds of all sizes and shapes countless colors and calls all reflecting the sun and murmuring in unison “We’re back!” Diana […]
Diana Lynn
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How to Survive This
I won’t check the news right now if you won’t. Instead, let’s think about summer peaches so ripe we’ll eat them leaning over the kitchen sink, or the crunching sound of walking on snow, and that dusty smell of the first rain, Let’s imagine how it would feel to put on warm socks right out […]
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In Gratitude
Cry with the ancestors long gone Family we’ve never met Cry with them now as they cried then… Stoking fires of wet wood Mending what would not be fixed And burying their babies. Cry with them now as they once cried… In childbirth In war And in love. Laugh with them too, For the fever […]
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zen master outhouse
tuck shirt in pants buckle back up mittens on no delay this day. trek uphill not far to the warm cabin and tea. done this a million times in snow even deeper. along the narrow trail brush up against fresh white powder […]
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All is Well
Golden hot fields of grasshoppers always one jump ahead, flying hard into high weeds safe from my uncle’s cupped hand and the rusty Bandaid bait can in his vest pocket. Lie low and silent in the high grass. Escape the purpose of fishing poles and hooks. Avoid cold creek water and the wary old trout […]
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lighter than air
when the love between two people reaches the speed of light nothing can trip them or make them tumble not even a steep down hill run careening through brush hand in hand cross country jumping boulders skipping along fallen logs leaping the creek sailing over ditches, the day turning too soon into twilight then darkness […]