QUESTIONS TO TOURISTS STOPPED BY A PINEAPPLE FIELD did you like your piece of pineapple would you like a napkin who gave you the pineapple what do you know about them do you eat much pineapple where you come from how did this […] Read More
“Black Cherries” by W.S. Merwin
BLACK CHERRIES Late in May as the light lengthens toward summer the young goldfinches flutter down through the day for the first time to find themselves among fallen petals cradling their day’s colors in the day’s shadows of the garden beside the old house after a cold spring with no rain not a sound comes […] Read More
“After the Alphabets” by W.S. Merwin
AFTER THE ALPHABETS I am trying to decipher the language of insects they are the tongues of the future their vocabularies describe buildings as food they can depict dark water and the veins of trees they can convey what they do not know and what is known at a distance and what nobody knows they […] Read More
