Tag Archives: memory

Old friend tree

Posted on May 21, 2020 by landl30

5.17.2020 [Old friend tree] Old friend tree laid down today in the middle of the night, in the middle of rain and dark and a quiet slip over when too much weight and soft soil combined to say it is … Continue reading →

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callings – July 25

Posted on July 28, 2017 by landl30

7.25.2017 [calling] a memory itches at my mind pulls, calls, reaches out. a young man, sitting beside a pond an edge of green trees moving out ahead to a point. and to his right a bay less traveled where a … Continue reading →

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christmas village – December 15

Posted on December 17, 2016 by landl30

12.15.2016 christmas village china setting house, school, church standing inn and fence, skaters and choir, around a wiring tree   and the remembrances of places not really past, yet visioned in our mind’s eye   as where we would have … Continue reading →

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tunnels of trees – November 5

Posted on November 5, 2016 by landl30

10.23.2016 tunnels of trees gold, flame, fading browns fill us as we drive.   my heart slows back to times when we piled then crunched   ourselves into the musky crisp that held them and wrapped around us.   we’d … Continue reading →

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empty choir stalls – September 19

Posted on September 18, 2016 by landl30

9.19.2016 empty choir stalls with gothic scrolls where young boys in starched white collars and black buttoned cassocks gave their voices up to God and found their ways in the world.   miss bicknell would keep me in check barely … Continue reading →

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words start to escape – May 9

Posted on May 11, 2016 by landl30

5.4.2016 words start to escape you.   these yellow flowers that just cropped up on the lawn.   I knew them only yesterday what’s the word, I ask. dandelions, she says.   oh, right… something with animals. okay. ——————–

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places of forever – December 17

Posted on December 18, 2014 by landl30

12.17.2014 golden days and nights upon which we slipped and slept and wandered together   to shores beyond which we never dreamed we’d move.   places of forever and a day where our souls melded and melted   when we … Continue reading →

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friends stories – October 7

Posted on October 8, 2014 by landl30

10.7.2014 friends, stories. gathered to share in each other’s sphere.   lives facing. ends, turns, moments with calm.   children who’ve died. lives gone, partners missed. parents.   time ordered by hopes lived, toughed through, upheld   by friends stories … Continue reading →

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store window visions – September 23

Posted on September 24, 2014 by landl30

9.23.2014 the toy store window held wonders and I pressed my nose against the jewelry store pane to watch skaters swirl mechanically across glass ices   a child’s wonder is beautiful and simple, joy lifting at the corners involuntarily, sparkle … Continue reading →

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old friends – August 21

Posted on August 22, 2014 by landl30

8.21.2014 a few old friends went away today. the bed we made babies in the car that taught our boys the way home.   inanimate. metal. wood. and wire. stuffing. only stuff.   and yet they were friends.   godspeed. … Continue reading →

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