/ ling, february 2009 syracuse ny

/ lots of my work went up on the gallery stock website today!

/ still from 'vivre sa vie' of a frame from 'the passion of joan of arc'

an old woman passes me carefully.

all my grandmothers live alone

contentedly. they miss their men,

but not in bed, not in the kitchen,

not deep in their work. if i outlive you

will i want nothing? winter always provides

a next thing to do: hurry home.

get warm. i turn my hands in steam

from the coffee. the perfect cold

without snow has undone a layer

of good farmland. how can we breathe

this air made visible by rising dust?

/ 'learning the elements' from the book salt air by sharon bryan