as the crow flies - Paperback

"as the crow flies" is a collection of poems about the passage of time toward one's death and the continuing, comforting connections with life.

The poems reflect individual events encountered throughout one's lifetime.

I sometimes feel longing,

a memory of flesh,

a feeling

of moss-moist carpeted ground

beneath towering conifers

and the musty pepper flavor,

orange moist flesh,

of the chanterelle,

female in structure

funnels of blunt gills forming

vase-like open mouths.

And I long to return to a moment past,

to that summer day, to that sense of connection,

and to stay in that inhaled breath.

and to lay back down,

and begin my slow-release

into earth

gifting in my changing body

what the mushrooms will transform