Triskele Studios

Thank you to  Backbone Mountain Review for publishing me again this year!! I will post the 2 pieces below... with some author's notes.  An honor!!!

Alberta

You rest

wan upon the pillow

scent of

some  past fragrant peach

lingering over the eiderdown

old skin in soft focus

afternoon light

of the soul.

Stream Waders

Hear below the

waterline

the language of little

green muddy things

whose bubbles break surface

in small redundant pops.

A stone shifts, a lure lodged.

A branch deep down hides carp,

trout dozing

in primordial peace.

ALBERTA is in memory of my Grandmother on my paternal side.  Her name was Alberta...and just for the record, tonight, Sept. 12, 2012, did I first realize the subliminal reference to peaches of the same appellation.  The poem has been brewing for a while.

Stream Waders recalls time spent on the Yough River. (Youghiogheny) Garrett County, MD.  Being an outside gal, I love to see the small, the fleeting moment...the moments lost becasue Nature is always in transition.