SCENES FROM THE KEWEENAW

Photo by S. Auberle

Been doing some traveling--one trip up to the Keweenaw Peninsula, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula...we go there as often as we can to drop back to a simpler way of life and be revitalized creatively--this is a selection of notes from various seasons of the year...

SCENES FROM THE KEWEENAW

~  flock of black crows

in field of white daisies

~oatmeal and buckwheat honey

apricots like small, fallen suns

your hands, reaching

~ another summer passing

we wait and watch

for blueberries ripening

~  Brother Raymond

at the Jampot gives us a taste

of marzipan and wild rosehip jam

~  beer at Harbor House

from a brewery first established

in Germany in 1049

~ the subject today

in Babette's Café

is the wind

~  church bells ringing out this noontime

 last night shouts and screams blading the dark

a terrified woman shouting no no no

~  Connie's Kitchen--the best pasties in the UP

her passing parade of diners almost as good

~  through Bumbletown, pop. 48,

down to the Gratiot River where last summer

fields of pink prairie roses bloomed

~  sign on church board--Can today be enough?

yes and yes and yes