The author on her back porch

Love and A Hurricane

There’s an example of all that is good buzzing at the end of our block. It’s a home being re-built. My friend Judith lost half her house from the wind. It was the only victim of Hurricane Irma in our neighborhood. Her oak tree, with hundreds of rings, gave in to one of the last
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Maureen in the Garden

I Carry Your Heart With Me

E. E. Cummings wrote a poem that I hold in the cup of my hands. It is that precious. His love is part of his being and it transcends the heart of the natural world. The construction and punctuation in the poem makes it  even more dear. My expression here feels like a response to
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