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Alaska, POESIEScrabbling for the last of the blueberries bearberries, crowberries, crab-apple – anything left of the dying autumn to stock up […]
He flies in ribbons like my hair undone
loosely in this arctic breeze
like a kite in the wind his long tail trailing
above melting icefloe, along costal freeze
Jaeger Bird, Barrow, Alaska Read Post »
Like a queen’s downy bed fluffed up for the loving featherlace wings drifting aloft they glide with the wind two
Cranes, Cook Inlet, Alaska Read Post »
He hangs out his wings to dry
soggy his dive
lazy on lava he loiters, waits
for whatever flounder dare wander
in harbour waters
beneath his razor-sharp rock.
Hungry, daggerbeak hook-tipped
aloof
quick wing-tuck, neck-stretch
so sudden the plunge to survive.
Cormorant on the Westman Islands, Iceland Read Post »
Cup in hand I take my tea at midnight down a darkening track lush chestnut oak and elm hang heavy
It’s the call over still water echoing round the bay of my mind some yearning, undefined A loon owns this
Loon (on Lake Denise, Soldotna, Alaska) Read Post »
This crack in your iceflesh thawing like a crease in the mouth of your womb you are melting in sighs
Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska Read Post »
Razor clams here are the size of babies’ hands opened up to catch the midnight sun. They roll in with
Clamming in Ninilchik, Alaska Read Post »
Thrilling through basalt rock
gushing from ice-sea to moss-lined ravine
virginal water once channeled now spreads
in a calm sheenflow
wide her sweep across stone
silk-lace in layers, her wedding dress
in white folds descending
sunbeams celebra…