Summer is coolingSummer will end End of heat End of sweat Sweat the change Sweat the future Future uncertain Future will come Come into autumn Come to the present Present is nice Present is pretty Pretty with colors Pretty in fall Fall to the ground Fall to the earth Earth reclaims life Earth rotates time Time toContinue reading “End of Light”
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A Choka: Fig Harvest
Ripened finally Time for harvesting is now All at once it comes Way too much of a good thing Creativity Is required in the kitchen A love-hate relationship Abundance of figs Hang heavily on the tree A curse and reward Consumed fresh, dried, stewed and baked Perhaps I should learn to can Colleen’s TankaTuesday PoetryContinue reading “A Choka: Fig Harvest”
Cotton Bales
Desolate brown fieldsOnce awash with puffs of whiteCotton bales settle
Just a Matter of Time
Almost twenty years ago, we sold our first house and bought an acre of land out in the country. Old farmland was converted into a quiet suburban neighborhood where my husband built our new home. At the entrance to our new neighborhood sits a large working farm. Over the past twenty years, the city hasContinue reading “Just a Matter of Time”
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