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Poetry

Reflection of a Latent Form: The Source of Consciousness

Whatever concept an artist imagines Is a reflection of a latent form that lies within A block of marble; the hand alone, Guided by the intellect, can give it form. from Michelangelo’s Sonnet 15 The “reflection of a latent form” Michelangelo characterizes in his poem has inspired debate among artists, aesthetes, and philosophers for thousands of

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Recycling a Well-Tended Garden

Recycling a Well-Tended Garden She side-bends and stoops after decades of puttering limber-up work-in-dirt yoga, knee bends to growing graces. Her garden sprawls on its back, open palms to June sun, humming a hover and rest like the blue darner. Her fingers spread compost, sifting the strumming of vegetable patches into mantras – mantras learned

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Cottonwoods of October

There’s a sound that the early autumn wind makes through the cottonwoods across the way (all dash and whisper and sway) that is the sound of a faraway whistle caught on a thread of unraveling distance from an old coal train heading west; it is the sound of the last of the Canada geese hefting

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Millionaire’s Spring Delight

Yesterday, had I been a millionaire able to hire a gardener or two, I — I still would have knelt in the earth and brushed back the crunchy leaves, to see, touch, oh! green shoots of new garlic. Yes, pruned scratchy rose bushes sucked blood from my thorn-stabbed thumb; cut back the lower aspen branches, plucked

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The Life of Colorado

  Arches carved by nature’s knife Bluebells bursting into life   Columbines the bloom of state Deer tracks cloven hooves create   Elk herd standing tall with pride Fox pups posting side by side   Ghost town eerie without sound Hay bales scattered on the ground   Icicles sharp as frozen quills Jagged mountain hiking

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Reflection of a Latent Form: The Source of Consciousness

Whatever concept an artist imagines Is a reflection of a latent form that lies within A block of marble; the hand alone, Guided by the intellect, can give it form. from Michelangelo’s Sonnet 15 The “reflection of a latent form” Michelangelo characterizes in his poem has inspired debate among artists, aesthetes, and philosophers for thousands of

Read More »

Recycling a Well-Tended Garden

Recycling a Well-Tended Garden She side-bends and stoops after decades of puttering limber-up work-in-dirt yoga, knee bends to growing graces. Her garden sprawls on its back, open palms to June sun, humming a hover and rest like the blue darner. Her fingers spread compost, sifting the strumming of vegetable patches into mantras – mantras learned

Read More »

Cottonwoods of October

There’s a sound that the early autumn wind makes through the cottonwoods across the way (all dash and whisper and sway) that is the sound of a faraway whistle caught on a thread of unraveling distance from an old coal train heading west; it is the sound of the last of the Canada geese hefting

Read More »

Millionaire’s Spring Delight

Yesterday, had I been a millionaire able to hire a gardener or two, I — I still would have knelt in the earth and brushed back the crunchy leaves, to see, touch, oh! green shoots of new garlic. Yes, pruned scratchy rose bushes sucked blood from my thorn-stabbed thumb; cut back the lower aspen branches, plucked

Read More »

The Life of Colorado

  Arches carved by nature’s knife Bluebells bursting into life   Columbines the bloom of state Deer tracks cloven hooves create   Elk herd standing tall with pride Fox pups posting side by side   Ghost town eerie without sound Hay bales scattered on the ground   Icicles sharp as frozen quills Jagged mountain hiking

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