Poetry

...when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost

Three Poems from Reverberations from Fukushima

Helen Keller, who returned briefly to Japan in 1948, visited Hiroshima.

The worsening condition of the elderberry is not a reflection of the world

It seemed forever before I saw my first living creature, another kangaroo, this one bounding off into the distance.

I circle you as time circles history first with one dog, then two, then none.

While you are reading this, trees are falling in the forest without you there to hear them fall which means, maybe, they’re not falling.

I check current burning regulations on the DNR site, surprised it reports the fire danger is LOW.