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june 6, the last spring,
first summer day this year

the river has stopped rising
      trees are in it up to their hips
           there are no islands anywhere
                only birch and aspen swaying
                      in water     their hair     a shimmer

of green and yellow light     I sit on the porch
      my hair     gathers seeds     white fluff
           pods     fine yellow pollen     a dark butterfly
                passes by in the wind another shimmering light-
                     catching thing     starlings whistle     sky

story-book sky all blue with sweet white
      clouds     sun lays its buttery hand across
           clover     columbine     tulips     smooth river
                stones in the garden     this small poem is
                     for mariah     on this     her eighteenth birthday

 

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  • Disclaimer

    Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

    In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

    It is likely to be -- it is best if it is -- a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

    A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think -- but it is not necessarily biographical.


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