Three Poems ~ Tami Haaland
Scene: Late Summer Long time since a bird slammed into a window, though it’s the season. Rowan berries are plump and birds are feasting. This one, a robin, fell...
Scene: Late Summer Long time since a bird slammed into a window, though it’s the season. Rowan berries are plump and birds are feasting. This one, a robin, fell...
I lost my mojo back in 1982 when Reagan was president. A lot Went on. I was sore confused. I ...
Game of Life Little blue pegs for boys, little pink pegs for girls—load up your plastic car with pretend childrenand off you go—everything dependent on the game...
1963 I was in the chair at the dentistwhen the news came on the radio—the president was dead. The technician screamed, pulledthe dental pick up through my gum. ...
—“Long period” comets have eccentric orbits that can exceed 100,000 years.  ...
Correspondence with Fog & Consolation Not everything is what it seems. The fog’s a reminderthat we’re each trapped in our own prison we call the self, &...
ALTARPIECE TEA What is he looking at, the ambulance driver sitting at a table inside a yellow square of light across the parking lot? Is he taking report...
Reason and One of Its Limitations You may perceive the invisible manBy perceiving the air that he displaces. In the dark of night, he is that partOf the night t...
“. . . with a puling infant’s force They swayed about upon a rocking horse And thought it Pegasus . . .” –Keats, R...
Stardust I met a woman who said she stole her father’s ashes from her mother’s home spread them under her father’s microscope and saw phosphorus constell...