by Candace | Jan 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
I am in the white world of dreams. The air, the surface I stand on, the surroundings are white. In this dream I am with my sister. There’s a white table in front of us. We have to give a presentation and we’re trying to plan it. There’s a white piece of Bristol Board... 
by Candace | Apr 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
People of eastern lush zonesaccording to Stegner*see many greensprairie people see only one but we have in our handsan expansive palette of brownsthe rust-brown slough-side dock we like to call fireweednear to matching the rich furry cattail seed headsthat fling their... 
by Candace | Mar 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Lone goose pipes overhead, silent V comes winging two acres behind. I edge toward a pair of Canada Geese settled under a spruce tree near the Forestry Farm parking lot, speaking in low tones to assure them I come in peace. They’re a welcome sight after another... 
by Candace | Feb 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
You, once river-borne stone,glacially displaced, an erratic;found rest in this ancient swale.Cracked open like a sacrificesplit by rain and ice.Iron pins thorn your heart like aprairie rose. We bow in reverence,inhale the incense of sage breezes smudging you,a stoic,... 
by Candace | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
The morning my sisters phoned metold me she’d gone, I wentup and taught my class—last of the week she’d have wanted me to—As I went to lock my bikeI heard a warbler andthere it was, yellowon its branch as nothing elseand I thought of her ...
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