Learning & yearning photo from ebay, asking $199.00… During bouts of outdoor work, when I’m mindlessly weeding, pruning, or doing soil prep, I’ve been mulling over whether–and if so, how–…

Latest blog on poetry process, themes, & change.
#blog #poetry #poems

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I wish more poetry taught me information. I've been told my poems sometimes make readers work too hard, but that is the kind of poetry I like to read. (Synthesis can be more than hyacinths and biscuits).

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Fern pushing through asphalt gravel
#willtolive #fern #gardening #motivation

🌱 #gardening #lilac

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Greens sprout despite drought. Kale, lettuce, Chinese cabbage.
#veggiegreens

If you can spare a prayer for my American beech tree...it had beech leaf disease last year. We treated it for nematodes and are hoping it survives. Just leafing out now. 🌱
#beech #americanbeech #disease

🌱 #garden #ipheion #springstarflower
Small, pretty, fragrant!

NoPoMonth, but… April is National Poetry Month; but this year, I am in hibernation mode. I’m not going to readings or writing a poem a day for 30 days, not posting much of my or other people’s poems or…

Latest blog, re: National Poetry Month and etc.
#blog
#poetry #poetrymonth #autism #books
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I love them. They are so cute.

My poem "Flood Tide" in the new issue of Philadelphia Stories.
#poem #poetrymonth #Philadelphiastories #litmags

Happy places The past few days, I have been in one of my happy places: the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico, where one of my Dear Ones lives. Cibola National Forest offers alpine grasslands and mostly-pine forest…

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#blog #garden #travel #newmexico

🌱 #gardens #gardening #Spurge #quince
Allegheny spurge is a native here in PA (USA). Quince is not...but I love its blossoms and so do the bees.

#corydalis #springblossoms

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Corydalis amid the dry oak leaves.

🌱 veggie garden prep.
#veggiepatch

New Mexico clouds.

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 13 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

Odes to mushrooms, the greenness of grief & more with @jannoble.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social @lisamariebasile.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social
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« you find yourself
altogether here,
even in his absence,
ready to embrace whatever
this immense world
decides to do with you »

The very first #poem of the season is now live on our webzine 😊

Read Readiness by @aempoet.bsky.social here 👉 theamazine.com/2026/04/02/r...

#litmag #poetry

Thank you!

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Early spring northeast PA USA
#squill #narcissus

Sowing and reaping Last week of March, and I suppose it is time for my customary “prepping the garden and sowing greens post.” One thing I like about gardening is that there’s constant change; each …

Blog today: gardening, poet-ing.

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🌱 beginning again. Spring in the veg patch.
#sowing #garden

🌱 Never been a huge begonia fan, but I inherited this one and it's flowering nicely indoors.
#begonia

Such great early spring bushes--cornus mas and edgeworthia! 🌱🌱
#earlyspring #shrubs

🌱 #gardening #compost

Emptied the finished compost from bin to veg patch. Now for the prep work.

Ides, ideas March has so far, as usual, been unsettled as to weather…and I’ve been feeling a bit unsettled myself. I’ve been writing a lot of drafts, which is a good thing–productivity&…

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Winter aconite. Eastern Pennsylvania USA.
🌱 ##springflowers

Cat meets antler.
#cat #whitetail #antler

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#latewinter #witchhazel #iris #gardening
Mid-March blooms. How I love the iris reticulata!

🌱 #garden #irisreticulata