selected journals 2014 – 2022
Journals. These are new for me, arising from another writers blog I followed. Here was verse story-telling but with a poetic sense of language and story, both. I was impressed. This format satisfied a need I’d felt but hadn’t addressed. Poetic verse, simply said. Here displayed by date chronology.
Mosaic is of recent acknowledgment, for my sense of being broken (physically) yet looking toward a better gathered whole. 2022-09-01
          most recent update 2023.05.17

2020-09-23 the thing in my head ◉
2020-10-10 say something ◉
2020-10-13 here, swallow this ◉
2020-10-24 must be elephants ◉
2020-10-26 frontier ◉
2021-02-04 Lucky Mud
2021-03-22 relevance ◉
2021-06-19 wayfinding ◉
2021-10-23 unexpectedly ◉
2022-04-13 writing with a dull pencil ◉

MOSAIC journals

2021-09-20 red wagon ◉
2022-06-18 nothing ◉
2022-07-02 ione ◉
2022-07-02 my home altar ◉
2022-07-03 what changed? ◉
2022-07-15 talk to the face ◉
2022-07-23 there is no dark sky anywhere ◉
2022-07-27 look ma, no hands ◉
2022-07-31 starting with a shed (watercolor)
2022-07-31 me, 14 billion years ago ◉
2022-08-11 fingers and toes ◉
2022-09-08 young fossil feet ◉
2022-09-16 plain talk don’t matter much ◉
2022-11-09 without a leash ◉

2023-02-13 thanks, about time (she said) ◉
2023-02-21 underwaters ◉ Pacific Grove
2023-03-16 I’ve assumed I’m doing this wrong ◉
2023-04-01 alone in the sea
2023-04-02 a few hundred feet of beach
2023-05-14 mother has more than only one day ◉

fragments

2020-12-28 leaves with feet, traveling ◉

2022-06-30 fragments ◉
2022-07-05 monks with dog
2022-07-07 pacific northwest gardening & fishing story
2022-07-08 half a moon
2022-07-10 under this leaf
2022-07-28 in review, “in & of itself” by Derek DelGaudio ◉

2022-08-14 low tide morning with pelicans cormorants and harbor seals
2022-08-15 floating peace lantern ceremony
2022-08-16 letter to R. ◉
2022-08-26 Momotaro ◉
2022-08-29 mermaid in colors ◉
2022-09-01 bookshelf guardian ◉
2022-09-10 looking from here # poem prompt suggestions

2022-10-03 sea me change
2022-10-16 william stafford says ◉ my poetry mentor
2022-10-23 clouds like these ◉ family picture story
2022-10-27 compass ◉ life navigation badge
2022-11-11 perched on a mountaintop
2022-11-11 three word poem, gone astray

2023-01-10 raise your hand if you live in the sea
2023-01-14 a compendium of wondrous wondering
2023-02-10 Eschscholzia californica poppies from space
2023-02-23 nine to five word poem a hat
2023-02-26 water in your hand ◉ Persian poet Hakim Sanai
2023-03-05 a John Steinbeck kind of day
2023-04-06 children speaking, we should be listening
2023-04-21 good harbor harbor seals in Monterey
2023-05-16 maybe faith looks like this ◉ Let me fall

 
 
 
photo: Sadie was a blessing in our lives.   I hope we were in hers.