Piece for County Workers & Family Members Show

This piece started off as a collagraph plate.  I was not pleased with the way it printed up so I turned it into a montage of the original plate with additions.

Idlewild 1999

My basement is

festooned with cobwebs.

The cat sleeps,

a circle on the dryer.

Wood chips on the floor.

I feed the furnace

First Frost

I remember those wild,

cold nights picking

tomatoes. Stapling

plastic with freezing fingers

to protect the dogs

on their hay filled porch.

Rose of Sharon

One Rose of Sharon
alone across the yard.
Lost in the wilderness
green.

 

3 AM

The fan moves the hot air.
A prick of light
shows through the
shade.
He groans.  I turn
over, fumble for
my notebook and
write.

Hibiscus Poem

Writing a poem
about a lavender
hibiscus
should be
easy. Distant
thunder.  Neighbor’s
dogs sound like
they caught
someone.  Catch
me a poem.

Atlanta Summer

Distant thunder.
Light rain brings
no relief.
Atlanta summer.