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the word for canary is forest - accompanying image to poem
poetry

The Word For Canary Is Forest

Posted on September 9, 2019 by rosie / 0 Comment

There's a pale canary, stuck in a cage. It's being taped singing without a page. And there are chains in the overtones and overtones in the chains...

Past the Stile of Stars (Elegy for Mary Oliver)
poetry

Past the Stile of Stars (Elegy for Mary Oliver)

Posted on February 3, 2019 by rosie / 1 Comment

Midsummer afternoon – airy aisles weave and thread through the plum trees. Pen in hand, I walk the lawn through an errant sprinkler, the blue sky so vacan...

old one
poetry

Old One

Posted on September 27, 2011 by rosie / 0 Comment

I leaned into his neck - soft, warm - a million scents of grass and earth that with the rain had...

Poems:

  • Moth on the Rocks
  • The Word For Canary Is Forest
  • Past the Stile of Stars (Elegy for Mary Oliver)
  • Dry lightning strikes Tasmania in the summertime
  • The Luddites
  • there is a yes
  • little crab
  • desidero
  • pigeons
  • what the night said to the dawn
  • Old One
  • One last load of washing
  • Morning Thoughts for a Friend
  • aftermath
  • Slave Girl
  • Shore at sunset
  • A burden shared is a burden halved
  • Beneath blankets
  • when all the snow melts

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