Author Archives: rjspoems

Slough-Spring life shouts from below  Tans to Greens—a verdant show  Spoonbills, Woodies, Redwings sing  Croaking, chipping, tinking things  Mud-Resurrection’s whispering roar. 

My solstice eye imagines you, seeing the winter moon rising  in long dark mornings before new days. I sense you feeling the edge of sun-warmth on a cold-nipped, winter-blushed cheeks; turning to keep the wind at bay, wiggling toes and … Continue reading →

Nuzzled from morning indecision by an eager whine, polite, with play-bow; and those eyes…. Such eyes of expectation met mine, and held them in faith and hopeful love of common things- How can I resist my friends invite to a … Continue reading →

Standing, waist deep in The Gallatin, shifting balances on flowing pebbles tenuous & tenacious…. Grippng bedrock with ones toes to cast 40 feet of looping line. Everything is moving out where the trout live. To grasp few ounces of their … Continue reading →

There are spaces and cracks in our lives where love seeps in   A rock is split in the freezing/thawing places of a Minnesota field   Powered by persistence water-life breaks stone by just being there   Penetrating and seeking … Continue reading →

I travel seul; we journey, wearied Of Me, myself & I- not three Ego hungers for His Presence Butterfly in Pollened Lee . . .   We are sand, just drifting, sifted We are flakes the wind will shake Detached, … Continue reading →

between our evening and the Morning across this field “neighbors” stand facing silhouetted wood enhanced being slanting flakes winter storm’s gift hygge komforte locked gazes holy-hushed spaces between now connected (!) snow-silenced wonder fearful glances cast at tail-lights passing…holding don’t … Continue reading →