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 ... 
by Candace | Jan 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
one morning I cried to nohkômwhat am I worth now without a man to love meI sat waiting for an answer from a woman who went home 25 years before my criesI heard nothing – I looked upthenthe sweet shrill whistle of a bird resting nearbythe wind running its fingers... 
by Candace | Dec 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
“I thought you were all dead”Words spoken from a blank canvasTainted by their cunning waysDeception, Death, Despair, DehumanizedUnrealized; Innocent Ignorance, or is it?Relatives decimated, to near extinctionWhat For?Another’s prosperityAnother’s vanityeliminate...
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