Ann E Michael

🌱 #garden #spring #finallyspring #crocuses #snowdrops

It's a lovely issue.

The traveling head returns.
#ceramics #installationart

Comparisons I keep a day-by-day garden journal, ten years at a time (the one I use is here, from Lee Valley). This record often proves useful and is an interesting way to compare how the seasons unfurl from ye…

#blog #february #climateweirding #snowdrops
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#enoughsnow

That look on her face when she hears me!
#whitetail #deer
Pigging out in birdseed.

Midwinter mojo Midwinter thaw. Hints that underneath all the snow, spring awakening could eventually occur; also, a distinct likelihood that once the snow melts, the air will again get frigid because winter&#8217…

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#blog #poetry

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#winterberries
#snow
#February

Larch cones wearing snow hats.
#stillwinter

Tired ~ TiredEveryone is tired today, even the cats.They are tired of the snow even thoughthey are indoor cats who never venture out.They are tired of looking through windowsat that white, reflective pla…

I admit to it: Being tired.
#blog #winter #cats #poem
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CELESTINO MARCO CAVALLI | phest PhEST - artists - CELESTINO MARCO CAVALLI

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Ann E. Michael Passo della MorteBecause we must hide by dayand travel at night, darkness hinders.The narrow stony trail offers options:turned ankles, torn skin, or precipicethat takes us sliding down the mountain…

WordPeace journal issue on home, place, displacement. #poetry
This poem of mine is based on Celestino Cavalli's work of installation art along the passo della morte in Italy. Please check out the link to his work at the close of this poem.

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:( yes, in eastern PA we are waiting...waiting...waiting for the temperature to go above 37 F and melt the snow. Other years I have snowdrops coming up around Feb 14...

Unlovely drafts Well, I have been writing. But less about the current wintry days than I expected, because of the online poetry seminar I’m taking. One recent prompt in Anita Skeen’s workshop involves …

More blogging, this time about how poetry is difficult.
#poetry #blog #cuba #repatriation

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Thank you! I had signed up but I didn't get back until 3. Eager to watch.

Poetry by Ann E. Michael Edna Winti   CC ​ Claims She Makes      1] her brain works differently  from other people’s. that’s why. she does pay attention she says    it’s just what she notices            ...

Poem in AHC
#poem
#antiheroinchic
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Tonight I Weep For My Country (c) Jake Michael 2003 YouTube video by John S. Michael

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Tracks This was no fox. The other day, we noticed a coyote limping down the meadow. We hear them now and then, at night, but we seldom see them; and this one was out at noontime. A bit unusual. I felt con…

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#blog #winter

Sweetie-pie has a cold. 😕
#selfdiagnosis
#winter
#headcold

#1947johndeeremodelm
#2-cylinder
#snow
#tractor
#myhero

They know they're being filmed. How can they be so brazen? They clearly feel safe enough to murder in broad daylight.

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#seeds #waiting...
#gardening #bakercreek

Shirt knowledge I have been missing my dad, so today I put on his old cotton knit sweater, the one that’s developing holes in the weave, the one I kept because his scent lingered in its fibers. It’s be…

#blog #poetry #garywhited #dad
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Garden is getting some dormancy. 🌱
#snow #garden

Ann E. Michael: High Desert - contemporary haibun online Ann E. Michael High Desert The Rio Frijoles, small but lively, murmurs and glints, trawling amid green. Water striders float in miniature cove pools, songbirds trill in shrubby oaks. A piercing crow-c...

#poetry #haibun #cho
A new haibun of my own at CHO.
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Unsettling We got some rain on Saturday, which we’ve needed, and dismal cold rainy January days are perfect for settling down with a book. I’m reading The Unsettling of America, Culture & Agri…

Wendell Berry and the nurture of the earth.
#blog #poetry #environment #wendellberry
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Small, refreshing Another day. One that the calendar claims occurs in 2026, although at times I disregard the calendar–another human-made thing, and I find so many human-made things destructive and frustrating…

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#blog #books #poetry #newyear

The weirdest thing about Americans is how many of them think their laws apply to every person in the world.
But they're certain other countries' laws don't apply to them.

The ceramic head gets winter effects.
#ceramics #snow

Play’s the thing My freshman humanities professor, the brilliant, late Larry Fuchsberg, assigned Johan Huizinga’s The Waning of the Middle Ages as one of the texts for our course…an unusual choice for A…

Culture, play, words, and poetry. In which I thank a (late) professor who taught me when I was a college freshman.
#blog
#poems
#huizinga
#play
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