it's been heaven knowing you

Elegy to the time it takes to realize the futility of elegies by Bob Hicok

Oil on canvas. , 12 x 16 in.

Etsy

Wyoming/Colorado Border

[text ID: That feverish July, the air tasted of electricity.]

march 20, 2016

Against Empire by Jim Moore

[Irish Centre for Poetry Studies]

But, if the industry of the church is what it took to give me bells ringing Sunday mornings, to which crows sometimes rise and deer turn, I’m grateful for a sound that pulls me out of myself, lifts my head toward sun and clouds, into the up and all, the blue, the on and on of it, when I bend the only knee I have to bend, feel happily small, contingent, and held, by what I can’t say, short of everything.

Burn Lake 3 by Carrie Fountain

Grand Teton NPS

European pied flycatcher/svartvit flugsnappare. Värmland, Sweden (10 May 2020).

Eurasian Red Squirrel/ekorre. Värmland, Sweden (20 June 2025).

Linda Hogan, from Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems; “Sweetness"