Category Archives: Poems & Photographs

Scarcity

Posted on January 27, 2016 by trillium24

Two sets of them: thieves in the neighborhood at 2 A.M. Thieves testing every door looking for unlocked cars, sheds, basements, things left outside, things unattended looking for the slip-ups, the mistakes looking for the careless, the forgetful, the unaware, … Continue reading →

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New Year’s Eve

Posted on January 26, 2016 by trillium24

  A cake her father bought her mother – always on the frosting the shape of a clock with the hand five minutes to midnight for the New Year’s Eve birthday gal, happy in their dancing celebrating then, even now … Continue reading →

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Every living thing

Posted on April 6, 2015 by trillium24

Every living thing.

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Jack London’s Beauty Ranch, Glen Ellen, Sonoma Mountain

Posted on September 24, 2014 by trillium24

Once, in the garden of Jack London’s home, I sat so still thinking of him that a wren landed on my head thinking I was a statue, perhaps, a place to stand and survey the land for his kind of … Continue reading →

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In the dream

Posted on June 10, 2014 by trillium24

There is no end to the darkness above my face – the darkness, moonless and without stars. Below me, a small mound of palest light fits stark and clean on the root of night. No movement sensed in the silence, … Continue reading →

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Childhood

Posted on June 3, 2014 by trillium24

The Ice-Cream Man in the little truck playing “Bicycle Built for Two” speeds up as I run out of my house wallet in hand with ice-cream on my mind. No, really … with chocolate on my mind. not the good … Continue reading →

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At the Poetry Festival

Posted on June 2, 2014 by trillium24

The drums come from the back of the band the rhythm Jamaican the poet drifts to the microphone: “I killed a cowboy today I didn’t mean it.” We, the audience, shift over-hot in the room but pliant leaning into the … Continue reading →

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Wing Span

Posted on April 21, 2014 by trillium24

In this sweet curve of time we fly south, over the up-lifted earth of the Sierra Nevadas, gray-green forests brown where fire touched the stretching earth, catchments of smooth blue water, patches of snow cast like manna on the peaks. … Continue reading →

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Alki Point, Minus Tide

Posted on April 7, 2014 by trillium24

Amanda runs through the shallow waves in her pink sun-suit and rubber boots, yelps as she holds a crab, its single pincher snapping.   Amanda grins and flashes the new front teeth too big for the others; she sets the … Continue reading →

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Wing-Beat in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado

Posted on April 4, 2014 by trillium24

You have said your good-byes like prayers, used to the words on your lips; your child has the shape of your eyes, but the shade of resemblance dances away.   Remember the river at dawn, flowing between the canyon walls … Continue reading →

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