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Song for Autumn

In the deep fall don’t you imagine the leaves think howcomfortable it will be to touch the earth instead of thenothingness of air and the endless freshets of wind? And don’t you thinkthe trees themselves, especially those with mossy, warm…

Honey Locust

Who can tell how lovely in June is the honey locust tree, or whya tree should be so sweet and live in this world? Each white blossomon a dangle of white flowers holds one green seed– a new life. Also…

White Heron Rises Over Blackwater

I wonder what it is that I will accomplish todayif anything can be called that marvelous word. It won’t bemy kind of work, which is only putting words on a page, the pencilhaltingly calling up the light of the world,…

Oxygen

Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even,while it calls the earth its home, the soul.So the merciful, noisy machine stands in our house working away in itslung-like voice. I hear it as I kneelbefore the fire, stirring with a stick…

Lead

Here is a storyto break your heart.Are you willing?This winterthe loons came to our harborand died, one by one,of nothing we could see.A friend told meof one on the shorethat lifted its head and openedthe elegant beak and cried outin…

Hum

What is this dark hum among the roses? The bees have gone simple, sipping,that’s all. What did you expect? Sophistication? They’re small creatures and they arefilling their bodies with sweetness, how could they not moan in happiness? The littleworker bee…

Thirst

Another morning and I wake with thirst for thegoodness I do not have. I walk out to the pond andall the way God has given us such beautiful lessons.Oh Lord, I was never a quick scholar but sulkedand hunched over…

The Chat

I wish I were the yellow chat down in the thicketswho sings all night, throwing into the air praises and panhandles, plaints, in curly phrases, half-rhymes,free verse too, with head-dipping and wing-wringing, with soft breastrising into the air— meek and…