6 November 2025 (grey day)

grey day

a crow noses around

in the leaf pile

27 April 2022 (grey day)

another grey day

the chipping sparrow’s

monotonous song

16 May 2020 (crows)

still-leafless trees

pondering the motives

of crows

December 2: Dutch Masters

I've been reading the catalog for the current show at the MFA Boston, "Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer," which we hope to see in person in the next few weeks. I've also been engaging closely with several specific paintings from the Dutch Golden Age for a poetry project, soaking up the luminous light and rich colors, flirting with the complex symbolism of a past time and place, and becoming familiar with ordinary humans painted extraordinarily well.

Hours with Dutch paintings
transform the bleak afternoon--
chiaroscuro.

November 30: Book

Holed up all day

wrapped in clouds

reading a great book.

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