Reflections

  • Lament for Cecilia

    Lament for Cecilia

    O, Cecilia! You most faithful of all faithful hounds You Argus waiting at the door You…

  • Gleaning

    Gleaning

    “And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right…

  • Night Work

    There’s something about harvesting at night. When you know a landscape, you know its lights at…

  • Dark Energy

    Driving home, tires hissing over wet pavement and windshield wipers swicking rain away. To the left,…

  • Tumult in the Night

    Storm watches and warnings all day. Talk of supercells and tornados and flash floods. Disbelief after…

  • Obeisance

    That’s the word that came to mind when I thought of my nightly ritual. Obeisance –…

  • Dance of the Cosmos

    In the west, Jupiter and Venus have drawn closer, like a smitten couple preparing to join…

  • Away and Back

    Away and Back

    Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You…

  • Catching Fireflies

    Catching Fireflies

    They come out in June, just for a couple of weeks. Some years I’ve missed them…

  • Away and Back

    Away and Back

    Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You…