March 4: Classics

who are our gods now

cold night alone

re-reading the Odyssey

November 20: Re-reading Bernd Heinrich’s WINTER WORLD

Shivering I read

how tree frogs survive

being frozen all winter.

November 16: Being read to

Audiobook

crime novel set in Venice—

I want to keep driving

October 8: Rainy Sunday

Lost in a book.

Out in the rain crows 

making a racket.

February 13: Blizzard

Snowed in all day

focus narrowed to one book

I read a woman's life.

 

(Highly recommend Megan Marshall's new biography of Elizabeth Bishop: A MIRACLE FOR BREAKFAST.)

 

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January 29: Afternoon with a book

Re-reading The Tale of Genji

I find myself longing

for... something...

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January 1, 2017: Evening reading

Maine winter's night:

sitting here reading about

Monet's waterlilies.

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December 28: Readings in philosophy

Existentialism--

reading as we drive home

until it's too dark to see.

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November 28: Afternoon

Reading for hours

with the cat asleep on my arm.

We need each other.

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February 13: Snow day

Ten degrees, wind howling.
Curled up with a book
on the Salem witch trials.

November 15: Safe

I escape in a book,

the cat's in a box:

ways we make ourselves safe.

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July 10: Today

These satisfactions--

wood lilies blooming,

a long, good book just finished.

 

Yes, Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See was as good as everyone is saying it is. I spent the entire afternoon sitting in the sun in my green, tree-sheltered backyard finishing it, while the vireo sang on and on over my head.

 

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June 26: Strings of lights

Strings of colored lights--

the neighbors throw a party

while I read alone.

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April 12: Solar powered

Outside with a good book.
Stray guinea hens cackle

on the neighbor's porch rail.

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February 15: End of the storm

At last, light on snow.
Between each batch of cookies

I read a poem.

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November 30: Book

Holed up all day

wrapped in clouds

reading a great book.

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July 28: Good book

Rain and clinging mist,
my head in the clouds all day--
unfinished book.

Reading CB Anderson's excellent book RIVER TALK. Perfect reading for a rainy summer day: resonant stories of life in the rural mill towns of western Maine, full of poignantly drawn characters living their ordinary, beautiful lives.

July 27: Rainy day with books

Finally, it rains.

I'm home alone

reading erotic poetry.

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February 27: Bus trip home

Another time on a bus

I envied a blind man reading

the whole dark drive.

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November 7: Dark so early

Lights of a barge

on the black bay.

Last pages of a good thriller.