Tag Archives: Poems

What we need now is glow… The sort of night that embers make The sound in nests or apples’ shapes A glow that gives more than it takes The kind of spoons or rakes or that neighbors love Those hailing … Continue reading →

  Look out the window… spring is here in all Her glory:   flowers, green plants, blue skies, wispy white clouds scattered about—almost cliché,   almost normal, except for the emptiness.   Vacant streets, silent playgrounds, shuttered stores.  Empty.  Folks … Continue reading →

Scientists reveal the physics of Jackson Pollack’s painting technique – Brown University, 10/30/19 Drizzling honey on my breakfast toast I watch it pool in spiral like a snake. Coiling instability scientists call it.   So, what did Jackson Pollack know … Continue reading →

People are dying alone, comforted by            prayers crashing through hospital windows            on megaphones. I-love-you’s on iPads held at arm’s length, the arm            covered in hazmat, faces covered hands covered voices covered            by whir and drip, beep and buzz of lifesaving … Continue reading →

Gift of the Virus. Birdsong abounding, human sounds mitigated. Copyright Jill Strachan 2020 Bio: Jill Strachan, a former arts administrator, started writing haiku almost at the exact moment that she retired.  And the haiku keep rolling in.  Several have been … Continue reading →

 Naples Florida, April 20, 2020 We see through blacktop to the clouds heat rising like sheets of glass   A crow’s piercing caw shreds the air stillness magnifying sound   An alligator with mouth wide-open moves closer Sharp teeth glisten … Continue reading →

Song Sparrows are already chorusing when we step outside answered quickly by House Finches trilling upward toward the sky, while a Red-Bellied Woodpecker whinnies in the distance. I follow the dog through the yard as a Mockingbird runs through its … Continue reading →