County Fair

We journeyed over miles of cultivated countryside to the August County Fair, heralded by Ferris wheels, and acres of sprawling exhibition barns, where farm families display prize produce, livestock, fiber − reminding us our food does not come from...

The Last Time and Lament for Louie

Today Louie failed to make the jump up to the window seat.   The top picture is Louie full grown.  The bottom picture is Charley at 8 months in February 2015   These two poems were written five months apart and...

Halloween Owl

On Halloween he flew into my window. I did not hear the awful crunching thud. I only saw the eerie image, face and wings, his powder left upon my pane when sun’s illuminating breath revealed this apparition.  Huge round...

Meadow Fog Shaftsbury

An image of the meadow fog ...