Inktober: 31 Days of Poems: Coat

I’m using daily prompts associated with Inktober (artists doing ink drawings) to spur poetry this month. The poems flow from the prompts, though it may not be

April Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day

Ha ha ha ha ha. There are no blooms whatsoever in my yard yet. In fact, today our high temperature was 25F (“feels like 15F”)

To be alive beneath cherry blossoms

I visited the Heritage Museums and Gardens in June last year and reported on it. Spouse and I were there again a few weeks ago, at

Garden Blogger’s Bloomday — April 2017

Still nothing in bloom here but at least the snow is melting. (Though we often get another snowfall later in April.) Right now, it’s melted

Garden Blogger’s Bloomday — March 2017

Well, no blooms here yet. In fact, yesterday, just when we were seeing snow melt and some bare ground, another 14-18″ of snow fell (measurements varied

Ever Vernal Endless Landscapes

“Oh, grassy glades! oh, ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye, — though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life,

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