top of page
Search
  • Writer's pictureDarigan Daily Drop
    • Sep 22, 2020
    • 1 min read

Wet wood fire

The hiss of a wet wood fire…

silver rivulet in a mud rut road

milk in her mouth’s desire

black spots on tawny toad

Condensation on window pane

a loon feather stuck in the muck

beech leaves blanket sylvan lane

buck skull fastened to hood of truck

Basil plants wilting in outdoor bath tub

moss spreads on granite ledge

chainsaw teeth ground to a nub

barbs and berries on huckleberry hedge

Evanescent clouds fade from view

verrmillion leaves on blueberry shrub

gilled mushroom blue decorates cord wood

tender fur on belly of cougar cub

Should she or should she not

he sleeps in the granary on the worn army cot

they read John Keats on blue hotel sheets over bourbon and rye

mink oil on new leather boots

the wind’s timeless sigh…

the barred owl hoots

and the fisher wails

6 views0 comments

Recent Posts

See All

Morning- fire lit. Early fall light flits in bits through yellowing beech leaves. Rust from leak patinas wood stove while sodden wood, just split, barely burns. Books of wisdom and wit stacked on shel

Foot on birch round for lumbar support. Books of Baudelaire Harrison Hesse and Thoreau. Piece of clay pipe And two white shells, found near Cloghane in Brandon Bay, on the desk, with a flattened slug

A cold winter night, and I read your macramé by candle light, listening to L. Cohen’s Famous Blue Raincoat. Thick falling snow quilts a gleaming brain tree shadows stretch, skeins of thought unravel t

bottom of page