A Poem: Our Clearing
Reds doodledoo in our gong-like metal barn.Pregnant cows moan from neighboring pastures.Squirrels dart down bare branches.Amid them birds sing a dozen echoing t...
Category: SPRING
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We are moving and I feel…
Coffee and watching petals fall with morning rain from courtyard tree.Sound, comforting.Site, lovely.Sentiment, sad but hopeful. In a few hours, our tree will n...
Alice Austen’s House
It looks like a doll house- with carpentry like lace lining its dormers and gables, diamond-pained glass, and stout chimney- sitting in the grass where an 8 yea...
Blooms Like Christmas Lights
Do you remember December car rides after dinner to view Christmas lights? After work today, when I drove around Tottenville looking at blossoming trees I was re...
Snow on the Daffodils.
Chris and I explored Princeton University together on Sunday to discover that spring has come to New Jersey. Some trees are already blossoming in white and red ...
Still in Boston. Still Spring.
>Sitting in a park in Boston.left: old brick wharfright: extension of soft grass under mestraight ahead: rows of Easter-colored tulipsbeyond tulips: teenage ...
Boston in the Spring
>I drove down Storrow Drive during the part of the day when the sun is so big that it can barely be eclipsed by a beach ball. Across the Charles River, the M...
Spring in Manhattan
Most would leave Manhattan to see the spring, but I wanted to go to Manhattan. The contrast of the lively cherry blossoms against the steel and concrete intrigu...
It’s snowing white petals in the streets of Manhattan
>I rode the Fung Wah bus into Chinatown and stayed with Brian Stout in his “cozy little money-sucking fire hazard” (Manhattan Apt.). Every tree-lined sidewal...
It’s spring!
>The sun came out. Finally. So I opened the window to let the shine in. As I ate my homemade italian sausage and brocolli pasta lunch, I admired the contrast...