Stinkhorns. Sort of spooky and surprising in the landscape. As one website puts it, “It ‘hatches.’ It smells like death. Some have a questionable shape.

Loving and Leaving them for 30 years
Stinkhorns. Sort of spooky and surprising in the landscape. As one website puts it, “It ‘hatches.’ It smells like death. Some have a questionable shape.
shadow of spring In the first place, dates aren’t solid. One March 20 is not another March 20, though all are the vernal equinox somewhere.
dreampoem: the words, engraved Well, it’s 6 a.m. here in New Hampshire and I’m in Paris, again. My small group has just arrived. I’m among throngs
Some landscapes are dreamy because they’re washed with a patina of age, nostalgia, romance, simplicity, simple magic. Some evoke carefree sunlit childhood days or moonlit
the light enduring It hardly bears saying that my life is dreamed. What else could it be, the puddling of moments that flash like
why, like Roethke, I take my waking slow Waking means doing things. It means waiting, which means impatience, everything takes too long, and then it’s