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Month: February 2018

Chair

57. chair picture
Hall Chair with Paisley Cloth © 2000 Designed & crafted by Sabiha Mujtaba

I thought the scarf

draped over the chair

was carved from a

single piece of

cherry wood,

waiting for me to

pull it

up to my writing

desk

Posted on February 26, 2018March 2, 2018Categories PoetryTags #52/52Leave a comment on Chair

Snow and Threads

18 snow & threads blog
Photo & poem © Kristin Cleage

The day the snow melted

I sat drinking tea and

looking out of the window.

Thin threads faded in

and out of sight as

the sun hit them or

a breeze blew. They

were everywhere.

Tying the world

together.

Posted on February 24, 2018March 2, 2018Categories PoetryTags #52/522 Comments on Snow and Threads

Moving Dirt

17 construction
From a 1943 High School yearbook.

Moving dirt.

Puffing steam and

smoke.  Trucks, and steam

shovels. Building the

future.

 

The new then, now the

past. Pushed down, falling

down. Ruined. Wrecked.

Posted on February 23, 2018March 2, 2018Categories PoetryTags #52/52Leave a comment on Moving Dirt

Shake up

16 glittering snow photo blog
Photo & poem © Kristin Cleage

Glittering, slivery

snow blows off

of the roof.

Dancing between

window and

the tree holding

snow in its still

green leaves like

cotton bolls.

 

Posted on February 17, 2018March 2, 2018Categories PoetryTags #52/52Leave a comment on Shake up

Cloudy Chainsaw

15a Japanese newspaper kids

Cloudy, grey, cold

it’s going to rain or

snow or both.

Everything is closed.

A chainsaw cuts

my neighbor’s wood.

They drag the leafy

tops to the curb.

He’s running.

Something is burning.

Posted on February 10, 2018March 2, 2018Categories PoetryTags #52/52Leave a comment on Cloudy Chainsaw

Basket

15. branches overhead photo blog
Photo & poem © Kristin Cleage

The branches

overhead

a basket,

holding me

to the earth.

Posted on February 9, 2018March 2, 2018Categories PoetryTags #52/52Leave a comment on Basket

Skinny With Glasses

14 glasses 1956 colorized
Photograph by Mershell C. Graham. Photo & Poem © Kristin Cleage

Looking at the photo –

our annual trip to the zoo –

I remember the skinny

boy across the alley who

asked my grandfather

where his pretty granddaughter

was and the surprise

sixty years ago that he

meant skinny with glasses

me.

Posted on February 8, 2018December 19, 2018Categories PoetryTags #52/52Leave a comment on Skinny With Glasses

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