ferns quietly unfurling,
fallen petals and tiny sleeping fawns,
shadows on rocks and on thoughts
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Excerpt from: French Braid
“Marriages have stages. They have incarnations, almost,” Mercy explains. “You can be in a good marriage and you can be in a bad marriage, and they can both be the same one but just at different times.”
from French Braid, by Anne Tyler, 2022
Weeds and Flowers
one person’s weeds,
are another person’s flowers
Rusty
she is rusty, worn, tired—
and still,
beautiful
Lately
tulips and roses and hot pink carnations,
books and puzzles and jars of fig honey,
gnomes and unicorns and blue lava lamps
Morning Fog
the sun rose, wrapped tightly within the silence of the morning fog
Lyrics from a song
If you’re a thought you will want me to think you
Lyrics from the song and album entitled, Scarlet’s Walk by Tori Amos, 2002
Beautiful Green Things
soft, green velvet
and sparkling emeralds,
deep green glass,
and thick forest landscapes,
leaves and trees and seeds,
and petals made of mystical jade,
fine, long feathers and
rolling fields of fragrant sage
Unlearning
“My focus, as I get older—is unlearning.”
A line from a recent conversation from my dear, wise friend.
Excerpt from: Birds of America
An exquisite cup, less than two inches across, of felted plant, fern or dandelion-seed down, covered so perfectly with moss and lichens and fastened with spider webs as to appear a mere protuberance on the limb, and lined with a layer of the finest down.
from Birds of America, 1936 – Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.
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