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Category Archives: Winter

  • When March brought us 80 degree days and Summer weather I didn’t quite recognize where I was living. But now April is settling over us with [...]

    Spring in reverse

    April 14, 2012
  • This poem comes courtesy of National Public Radio (NPR) and “The Writer’s Almanac.” My mother passed this along to me this [...]

    “March”

    March 19, 2012
  • A Cold Rain the Day Before Spring From heaven it falls on the gray pitted ice that has been here since December. In the gutter rivulets erode [...]

    “A Cold Rain the Day Before Spring”

    March 10, 2012
  • An Old Life Snow fell in the night. At five-fifteen I woke to a bluish mounded softness where the Honda was. Cat fed and coffee made, I broomed [...]

    “An Old Life”

    March 7, 2012
  • I’ve decided that I am going to try and find a topical poem and post one every day this month. I got this idea after my mother sent me the [...]

    March is going to be poetry month

    March 2, 2012
  • March Rain-glaze on snow. Mud and ice and snow. Coyotes feed themselves on gaunt dreams of spring. Then what comes slowly suddenly he sees. Light [...]

    “March”

    March 1, 2012
  • I have been noticing all winter long that the weather forecasts around here have been downplaying how mild the season has been. Every time there [...]

    Things that make you go “Hmm. . . .”

    February 27, 2012
  • Images

    February 24, 2012
  • Part of me cannot really believe it is late February. There is a stillness to Winter and a deep sense of solitude that I cannot find at any other [...]

    Late February

    February 21, 2012
  • This has been an interesting week. We remain snowless here in London and there is almost no snow predicted in the long-term forecast for the [...]

    Climate Change

    February 9, 2012

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