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Fracture 93: Moving the Future into the Present
(1) There, there I see you – walking along the shoreline,the sun is your companion. The ocean wind...
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Silent Objections
The calm water reflects the coldmorning sky coming on-line. Pierced by raven calls and lulledby rolling waves. Fragments...
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A Slow Start to 2020
As 2020 emerges from the cold waters, we take stock of the previous year. It feels as though...
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Imagine What is Lost
We know there is no land within what we can see with the naked eye or binoculars, and...
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Tree on Cliff
We have been visiting this location on Lake Superior for 10-years. Through every season and every weather pattern....
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Poem – Awakened
Scattered wisps of cloudsgive way to the first sunrise. Peaking over the horizon,shoreline rocks absorb each ray. Newly...
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Poem – Reflections on What Proceeded Today
In the last few hours of the year.Superior is awake and talking. Waves are heard before they appear...
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Poem – Superior Snow
The sun set long ago,and we venture out with headlamps. Bright white snow consumes tree shadowswith each pass...
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Home is our True Being
Home is not just where you live and return each evening. Home is that place we hold close...
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Poem – Saman
The black silent outline moves closer as time passes, time not from here. The empty sky vibrates as...
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Poem – The Bridge
Years ago, after the moment passed, one of those life changing decisions that, somewhere inside, I know altered...
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Poem – Outside of Time
Sands cover the landscape spewing steam. The vast ocean surfaced with the grains I have discarded. Passing through...
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Poem – In the Silence
In the stationary silence I seek answers that already lie at me feet. I look for skies that...
Poem – Love
What we have spans time, existing without place, breathing with each ray of light, captured in morning waves.
Poem – Flight
Against an evening sunset and blue backdrop a pair of ravens circle, descend, and ascend a last time...