July/August 2020
— A girl and her father venture into woods to craft a bow and arrows from oak branches, shooting them into the star-filled evening sky.
— A circus where performers swap acts transforms into animals and objects overnight, then mysteriously returns to normal the next day.
— A 13-year-old observes graduation season from a Manhattan hotel, watching anxious parents at breakfast and contemplating the hidden world awaiting both graduates and herself.
— A winter morning walk to art class transforms when the speaker notices the river's muddy ice, mallard, and debris become a still life waiting to be painted.
— A poem explores the paradox of someone who embodies contradictions — friend and enemy, peaceful yet at war, standing perpetually between opposing states.
— Morning fog lifts as blackbirds sing and a coyote chases a dog, leaving the speaker wondering who cleared the fog away.
— A cast iron staircase in a restored Russian school is the only original element remaining, holding memories of young women who once descended with diplomas and dreams of freedom.
— A young visitor to Sobibór death camp touches the train tracks and imagines herself as a child searching for murdered parents.
— A meditation on trust through two contrasting images: a dog with a chess piece and the persistence of hope despite love's impermanence.