Basilica

kings, queens, Saint Denis

their horizontal statues

miss summer again

--12 June 2019

les jardins de Château de Breteuil

in prince's garden

I take off my shoes under

loaded apple trees

--July 2022

end of summer

distant blue forest

hugs the Erie horizon

summer ferries meet

August 2023

Yes this happened

 summer in Fort Bragg

sold out of mushroom flavor

at Cowlick's Ice Cream 

the cottage is gone

first termites then bulldozers

memories homeless

 

Pandemic

same walks from my house

loved ones on the computer

permanent limbo

James' backyard

hammock under spruce
small absent-minded clouds drift

towards oblivion


3 pm, Strasbourg, France

twisted Jeffrey pine
knife-edge ridge, clouds far below
solitude arrives

--May 12, descending Mt. Baldy

back from St. Olaf
photo in front of cactus
to send to new friends
-- 24 Feb 2018

levitating hawk

floats above steep-walled canyon

while dark clouds whip by

-- 15 January 2018

Semester abroad

"I'll have to dress up.
That black cardigan might work."
packing for Cairo

14 December 2017, San Diego

family of goats
blocking my trail while eating
then, back to the farm
5 July 2016, Giverny

two hundred ninety
five kilometers per hour
sideways rain, thunder
23 July 2016

Almost there!

"A Peanuts Christmas"
on the stereo, last class
tomorrow morning

Long summer

used to wear these things
called sweatshirts at this point I'm
not sure what they're for
--
1 October 2015

I used to call home

hoping to get the machine

enjoying her voice

--Jane Hilbrands

it is time for this
university to go
away laughs Paola

--17 July 2015, when the phone system malfunctioned

high-rise apartments
modernist utopia
don't want to live here

-- 15 July 2015 in Creteil, the suburb of Paris where I've been working this summer

Saw a stuffed weasel
at the flea market today
couldn't ask how much
-- May 2015, Rue de Bretagne

Chopin's candle burns
Rossini's tomb is larger
but candle is out

--23 May 2015