A Year of Reading

What I love most about my 2015 National Poetry Month project is what I love most about writing poetry: I had the vaguest of notions how...

Wikimedia THIS IS JUST TO SAY I have written the poems that were sitting on the shelf in plain sight and also the ones...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by Todd Shoemake PRIDE Is it branches full of unopened blossoms against an impossibly blue Apri...

PLANTING BULBS IN THE FALL It will matter that I gave them time  and  choice. It will matter that they read widel...

this parsley -- all I want from life -- until it's not ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2015 Carol, at  Carol's Cor...

A CLERIHEW FOR  JAMA RATTIGAN Jama shines above the rest, cooks up blog posts filled with zest. She's not gilding on ...

Wikipedia GOLDFINCH flash of gold  not smelted  newly molted lilting flight burbling song undulation concentrated...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by Nicolas Raymond HELP! I ate too much! I took a test! My boat capsized! I'm in distr...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by Menno van der Horst layers of ice bend willows break spirits ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2015 ...

CAUGHT THROWING A PAPER WAD ACROSS THE CLASSROOM I'm sorry I regret it I know that it was wrong. (But still I can...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by Dave Crosby GUILT rain pouring unclaimed umbrella  I stay dry ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2015 ...

FOREST FLOOR The name of the next street over  hints at what our neighborhood was  before there were houses and streets:  F...

INTEREST At the bank it's what you get without trying. You just have to be there. (monetarily) At the (river)ba...