Posts by marysayler

Finding Giverny Off A Sand Road In Rural FL

By on Sep 24, 2010 in Poetry | Comments Off

Monet painted our pond: wind slurring the water, lily pads blurred with white lights against green swirls, the eye of a cataract sky awash with Van Gogh’s iris. Heat Wave Contents

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Late Night with a Seasoned Poet

By on Sep 24, 2010 in Poetry | Comments Off

after reading Mary Oliver I cannot reach you   at five a.m. when you spring    awake to watch a summer rose fall into a pink-petaled   lake where fishes bloom.     I’m not a morning person unless a winter   less night yawns & stretches     into dawn with jarring songs of owls & whippoorwills   and the charming squeak of     a bat. Outlined at dusk, its soaring silhouette   intersects the evening     sky, circling insects and other small...

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