transitional times like march and november
move me
i must go outside
(hence my absence from the ethers)
and i have been making lots of ecoprints
i did get out on my land
several times
and found a stack of rock books
this rock i've not seen in years
in fact, having lived on this piece of north country
for 26 years,
much has changed,
is changing
the stream has become a series
of ponds
six now, i think
as beaver rearrange the land to their suiting
i walked across several dams
became dazzled by the late afternoon
brilliant sunlight
saw myself reflected on ice
and walked gingerly around such trees
there were other dam visitors
before me.
while there i heard some birds, chickadees mostly,
beginning to think about spring
i've ridden my horses, skied, and walked,
sometimes hauling out a child or a load of stuff
up this hill from the woods
this is the back of my pasture
and there i am with a bag of plant bits
i often come out here and just
stretch out on a rock
or examine the plants
or watch a woodchuck hole, a rabbit run, a deer trail.
it's really growing up to brush now
without grazing animals on it
there are still
milkweed blessings
all over this place.
at work the men were talking of milkweed
how toxic it is, blah, blah, blah,
and i told them i'd eaten it.
poor (wo)man's asparagus.
mouths fell open,
astonished.
(i grinned)