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“My Writing Process” Blog Tour
I was first asked to join the “My Writing Process” blog tour by the brilliant writer Rolf Yngve, whose “Chasing the Wolf Tone” is always fascinating. Since that time, I’ve been amazed to read the wonderfully diverse, thought-provoking posts by other friends and acquaintances – such an inspiring variety of style and personality! The questions…
Myopia in the Afternoon
Myopia in the Afternoon What landscape is this? My flesh curvingover your bones, pectoral swellunder my cheek, darkness of tangled fur,and beyond that, the wet angled branch of a tree, and beyond that,something white, something pale blue.Call it tree and window,sky and snow. But what this is, so close at hand, I cannot say.This landscape…
Crannóg, Trees, Vortexes, and Home
It made me very happy to know that Crannóg Magazine had selected my poem “Unleaving” for Issue 47, now available. It makes such a resonant conjunction of different places and times! Crannóg is published in Galway, Ireland, yet this is a praise poem to the trees of northern California, and starts out with an American…
Kintsugi
In this moment of equipoise, balance of night and day, we await a full moon lunar eclipse – an eclipse of the deep golden harvest moon, so warm and radiant. I love lunar eclipses, the dark of the moon, the new moon, the winter solstice, all these times of letting go, erasure, darkness and rebirth….
Sudden Oak Death Syndrome
Sudden Oak Death Syndrome Down the long body of California,ramalina drapes the dead shoulders of oakswith her bent hair. Lace lichen. It’s the color of sadness,of rain that goes on for a long time,of things fading into the distance. Behind its veil ooze blackcankers of phytophthora ramorum. We are in plague time now,these dead too…
A Wonderful Review
There is a wonderful review of Woman With Crows by writer Claire Farley in The California Journal of Women Writers:http://tcjww.org/2014/05/29/woman-with-crows-by-ruth-thompson/ I do not know Claire and had not seen the review, so it came as a joyous surprise to open my computer yesterday and read her words. I am full of happiness – not just…