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Bulletins from the Hermitage

Writing


Offering XXVII: The Coming of the Birds
March 25, 2025 retreat move on transform mutate grow old disappear rise fly away gone are the days of holding on soft words and leather...
Jul 23


Offering XXVI: MIA
March 23, 2025 tears before strangers and drinking bad wine brings me up against you again my poet and maker of maps one who led the way...
Jul 23


Offering XXV: Back to You
March 22, 2025 Things recede I forget to think of you but the turkey vultures are back and the juncos still remain in this inbetween home...
Jul 23


Offering XXIV: Spring Equinox
March 20, 2025 Here it is, a day of soft rain becoming wet snow, and the fire still lit Was I warm enough? Could you feel it? Do you...
Jul 22


Offering XXIII: Further
March 15, 2025 Away you go. Who am I to make you stay? Feisty one you left me gasping then silence So quickly we must change,...
Jul 20


Offering XXII: Reading Joan Didion
March 15, 2025 a. My own death looms handsomely morbidly shockingly suicidally on some horizon or other The issuing of self pity leaping...
Jul 13


Offering XXI: Full Moon Money
March 13, 2025 Would you be appalled at my tossing money every which way even to the wind? That newly purchased bookshelf isn't a...
Jul 13


Offering XX: Emptiness
March 11, 2025 All your hopes and dreams you held like a fragile web, patiently kept untangled, neatly ordered for future use Do you...
Jul 13


Offering XIX: Little Words
March 9, 2025 Little words you gave me Sweetie Pie. Margie Sue. Mr Worst Case Scenario, how does it feel to be dead? Are you floating on...
Jul 13


Offering XVIII: Provisions for the Journey
March 8, 2025 So. I suppose we can only do our best. Knowing you are probably not going to return shall I put my attention elsewhere?...
Jul 13


Offering XVII: Rattling Bones
March 5, 2025 I heard sandhill cranes speaking their ancient hollow dialect I saw two great ones flying in on early morning fog The...
Jul 12


Offering XVI: Upon Waking
March 4, 2025 Pain and pleasure are so close together at dawn, when darkness says goodbye I run away from you Can I stay a while in sweet...
Jul 10


Offering XV: For One Who Doesn't Read Manuals
March 3, 2025 There's so much I don't know How to use the chainsaw How to start the splitter How to shoot an intruder Thinking about...
Jul 10


Offering XIV: Artifacts
March 3, 2025 Remember the great horned owl silently watching us from the barn roof? Early in our time together, we shared its enormous...
Jul 10


Offering XIII: Not Interested
February 28, 2025 A bald eagle sitting in the field Common. Would I have told you? The trees have been tapped sprouts peeking green heads...
Jul 10


Offering XII: Junkyard Bot
February 27, 2025
Jul 9


Offering XI: Pink Sky
February 26, 2025 You came back for a spell didn't you? And again you will yourself back to this place to me The future is dark I know...
Jul 8


Offering X: Patient
Unknown Date waiting for the coyote's call with you I apprenticed patience the penance that I pay is loneliness creeping in like fog or...
Jul 8


Offering VIIII: Magik
Unknown Date sometimes I cry. your empty workshop, cold expanse of neglected equipment you greet me sometimes friend sometimes monster...
Jul 8


Offering VIII: Icon
Unknown date I can't find you eyes darting desperately dispairingly hither and thither on the lane The Enchanted Lane Nor can I find you...
Jul 8
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