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“Five states currently conduct all elections entirely by mail: Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Utah. At least 21 other states have laws that allow certain smaller elections, such as school board contests, to be conducted by mail. For these elections, all registered voters receive a ballot in the mail. The voter marks the ballot, puts it in…
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The students in the high school where I taught are taking classes remotely. It seems like most people are doing things remotely these days, attending poetry readings, visiting with family, working. Some businesses have already announced permanent changes. They are closing, or intend to allow employees to continue working at a distance if they prefer.…
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There are eagles in the sky most days. All that beauty in the air. I pulled out my weaving: merino baby blankets, shawls, and lap-robes out of the tansu chest and stacked them up in a chair. Twenty-three—I turned the photo sideways so they would fit my screen. More than half these soft things have…
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The new warp is green, cool, the color of lichens and shaded moss, the color of celadon porcelain, all the watered hues of seaglass found tumbled in basalt on my shore
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My neighbor always used to blame me whenever she caught a cold or flu—”You gave me this”—and now I know she should have washed her hands before touching her face. I do not think she will be able to blame me for this. “Worser and worser” was the ungrammatical line from my childhood. A new…
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It started with East wind, which was warm and dry on Friday and floated dry grains of sand across the shore. That called up the memory of walking Bowzer and how he stood so tall and alert, looking far off north until he noticed the sand accumulating on his feet. He would pick up each…
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There are literal black swans. But the expression “black swan” when not speaking about birds means something else. A black swan is an anomaly. It is the thing that careful observations and experience tells us cannot happen… and then it does. For example, living in 18th century England, I could have looked at literally hundreds…
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