Paleolithica: And Other Poems

By Steve K. Bertrand

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796014600

Steve K. Bertrand

For this pictorial history of Paine Field, Steve K. Bertrand has selected more than 200 images from the local community, historical societies, regional libraries, and state archives. He has traced the rich history of Paine Field from its earliest days to its present status as a bustling airport and commercial aviation center. These photographs provide a glimpse into the people and events that influenced this small community in the Pacific Northwest.

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Copyright © 2019 by Steve K. Bertrand.

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Contents

Paleolithica

Godiva

Forbidden Photographs

Parable of the Son

Calling My Daughter To Supper

On the Edge of the Guatemalan Jungle

Hauling Stone

For the 54th Massachusetts

Remorse

Suffragette’s Heel

Frog at the Well

Chichen Itza

Negotiations

Because Spring Has Arrived Early

War

Peaches

A Question of Geography

A Gardener’s Life

Motorcycle Mamma Love Song

Yucatan

Ape Cave

On Heaven & Hell

Beehive

Taking Aim

War Games

Midnight Rendezvous

Midnight Rendezvous II

The Village Has Vanished

Waiting

Such Joy, Such Pain

Antelope

For The Master Teacher

August Evening

The Weight of his World

In A Country Cemetery

Ishi

The Vagabond

Wise Man

Learning to Live with a Woman

Crows at Dawn

She is Happiest Tending to her Garden

Eternal Spring

Regrets

The Entomologist

Horse Woman

A Lesson Learned

Achilles Heel

The Master Gardener

Groundhog Day

Not bad for February in the Pacific Northwest.

One Question

A Good Education

The Savage Heart

Regrets II

Liquid Diet

A Poem for You

People of the Bowl

A Poem for You II

Ode to Old Age

El Lagarto

Winter Shirts

Spring Lamentations

My Wife They Say Is Like A Cat

Constant Vigil

Tropic of Cancer Testimony

Small Significance

Nothing Lasts

The Blind Man

The Fighting in Iraq

Realm of the Gods

Let The Wild Horses Run

Crimson Dawn

Archaeology of a Reader Board

Hamsters

A Little Prank…

On Living to be a Hundred

Each Outgoing Wave

An Exceptional Girl

Picking Wildflowers

The Neighborhood Where I Grew Up

Convergence Zone

Convergence Zone II

The Old Lighthouse

Trawler Captain

A Simple Song

Edgewater Beach

Hemingway, Oh, Hemingway

Don Juan

Little Things

Edgewater Beach II

Blue Ridge Mountains

Sometimes It Pays Off

Meditation with Crow

Pronouns

A Childhood Recollection

Night Watch

Pampas Grass

Water Buffalo

A Lesson in Humility

My Song

At Heaven’s Gate

Independence Day

A Day Spent Hiking the Forest

Apathy

Apathy & the Rain

Widower’s Lament

A P.E. Teacher’s Haiku

Winter Day

Five Goat Mountain

The Ultimate Trickster

Bindle Stiff

A Sandy Spit of Beach

Amber: From The Song That Plays Inside Her Head

There once was a man from Kildare,

Morning Ritual

The Old Ways

Eagles Have Left the Ish Rivers

The Neighbor Watches Me Work My Garden

Autumn in the Valley

Dilemma

Dilemma II

Island Dilemma

Robin Caught in the Rain

Black Beetle

Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Stevens Pass to Kennedy Hot Springs

Persephone

Crows Above the Sea

Steller’s Jays

An Ex-Hoopster’s Momma Takes on the Bleacher Bum

What I Do Best

A Question of Hydration

I Ride my Horse into Battle

Nothing Comes for Free

The Far Bank

Before the Race is Ever Won

Conferring with Neptune

Wanderlust

On Summer Evenings

A Kiss Good-bye

Drama Queen

The Habit of Gossiping

Animal Stones

Midnight

Memories

Ode to a Bookmark

Michelle

Enduring

Life’s Ambitions

On the Edge of My Dreams

There’s Something Wrong with Your Wedding Ring

A Gypsy in the Northwest

All Those Years Ago

Slip Stream

Silly Birds

Vatican II

Red Pass

Jazz for Crows

Nothing More Beautiful

With Grace & Beauty

When I Sip Peach Tea

Before the Snowfall

Gazing Upon the Past

Simple Math

In A Tangle of Weeds

Living Too Much in the Physical World

Earth, Sea & Sky

Let The Rains Come

Tolerance

Just in Case

Incense

Winter Dream

On the Side of Your Beautiful Face

Standing in an Old Indian Cemetery

Blue Dragonfly

The Garden Bordering Our Neighbor’s House

Just a Dream Away

Everything He Used To Be…

The Oarsmen

Passion

Across Gray Sky

Passion II

Garden Patch

New Songs

Columbus

Long Gone

The Faintest Memory

War in Iraq

This Forest

Eagle & Salmon

Beach at Sunset

Summer Drought

All the Answers

A Woman of Untroubled Dreams

4th of July on the Swinomish Indian Reservation

Driving Through Palouse Country

Husband Ears

Dining with my Father

Pruning the Fountain Cherry

Teacher’s Pet

Tardy

Blah… Blah… Blah…

The Nonconformist

Returning to the Old Neighborhood

Unwelcome Guest

The Foreigner’s Lesson

Daily News

The Sound of our Dripping Fawcett

All I Need…

An Unexpected Storm

General of the Seasons

New Moon

In The Forest of Mother Nature

Pastries

Reminiscing

Reminiscing II

High Country

Seeds Sown

Early Evening

A Mother’s Lament

Pesky Mole

Into Old Age

On Human Nature

The Man in the Moon

On The Edge of Town

Lazy Eye

Tracy & Hepburn

Bad News

After Rescuing a Bee

You & I

The Buddha & Saint Francis

The Myth of Old Woman & Oak

A Child’s Prayer

A Carnal Beast

What A Difference Thirty Years Make

In a Cat’s Eyes

Preparing to Fish the Snohomish River

The Body

Pruning The Honeysuckle

Great Blue Heron

Miscarriage

Beastial Pride

Standing on the Seawall

Old Crow

S.A.T.’s

The Carver & His Knife

This Forested Path

Gettysburg

The Sun Is Up

Evening Whispers

Pretty Girls

Forest

The Writer

A Chinese Peasant

Opportunity

Crow’s Journey

Edge of Winter

Religion

Ivan The Terrible

A Note On Predation…

Ancient History

Too Old for War

Born Anew

Juniper’s Pardon

The Old Salt

Cave Man & the Stone

I Don’t Much Care for Beethoven

Benjamin Bales

Giuseppe

I Do Not Have All The Answers

Leftovers

A Day at the Office

Ryokan

Tea Ceremony

Tea Ceremony II

Not Your Style

Invictus

The Hunter

The Only Religion That I Need

Nature’s Secrets

Star Bird

In the Forest

Rafting the Mopan

Final Exam

Song of the Bullfrogs

The Lost City of Z

Across A Cloudy, Autumn Sky

Porridge Eaters

Against Her Better Reason

The Simplest Things

Cleopatra

Antelope

Abandoned Tug

An Eye on his Whereabouts

Skagit Ritual

Last Week’s News

Coldest Before the Dawn

I Am a Skillful Warrior

Five Fathoms Deep

The Neighbor Boy

Long, Cold Winter

Awakening this Morning

Song of Desiree

Ode to the Lumberjack or How the Pacific Northwest was Logged

Ruling The Roost

Without a Map or Compass

A Little Amusement

The Stone Buddha

Down by the River

Down by the River II

Waiting

A Vital Part of Life

His Wife of Thirty Years or More

Saturday Morning

Sax

White-Throated Sparrow

Mermaid

Burglars

Sweeping the Sky of Clouds

Morning Glory

But for my Footprints

A Simple Prayer

Fight the Good Fight

Last Night

Sunrise

To Call Yourself a Writer

Tonight Belongs to the Moon

Poet’s Day

Crow’s Caw

A Bundle of Good

Weak One

Pitter Pat

A School of Spawning Salmon

Treason

Catching Butterflies

Reckoning

Blue Dragonfly

The Literary Piano

Five Ways of Looking at Bamboo

When Eagle Spreads His Majestic Wings

Poet’s Dilemma

The Road to Compostela

Winter’s Return

Arbors

Antietam at Sunrise

Something Could Be Learned

How Deep the River Flows

A Slice of Moon

She Works a Long Day

Reading Between the Lines

Where Are You Going?

Reading Between the Lines II

A Thousand Shades to Night

Moods

Retirement

Remote

Guardian of the Interstate

The Fisherman’s Son

Blue Moon

All The Answers

A Case for Jesse James

Importance

Hearth & Home

Flu

Down with the Flu

Watching Clouds Drift…

Because I’ve Noticed…

Big Leagues

From the Wheelhouse of my Nordic Tug

The Curse of Orchidaceae

Old Crow, Old Crow

Primitive Instincts

A Teacher’s Lament

Rock of Cashel

Rock of Cashel II

The Noblest of Men

A Soft Rain

The Poet

Her TV Family

Pink Flowering Dogwood

Twilight Boxer

An Unbruised Ego

Song of the Common Murre

A Child’s Passing

Rich Man’s Yard

Tarved Nuff Ta Et A Horse

In the Schoolyard

Garden Thoughts

Mistake

A Dream of Angry Stallions

The Old Pond

Growing Old on a Baseball Diamond

My Love

Horse Memory from Childhood

Winter Valley

Supper Sonata

Just Because

Living on Carrot Cake

The Sound of Lapping Waves…

Archimedes’ Tomb

An Early Evening Walk in Winter

Blue Bikini

Drought

Drought II

Drought III

Eighteen Ways a Tourist Looks at New York City

Passing A Village Temple

This Ordinary Life

Winter Contentment

All Along the Potomac

No Worries

Folklore or Meteorology?

Winter Thoughts

Tell Me, Spring Wind

New Houses

Raven’s Song

Least Death Rob You

The Path to Nowhere

Robin’s Gift

A Poet’s Ponderings…

Down A Twisted Road…

Gig Line

Traveling Highway 2 Over Stevens Pass

All Those Years Ago…

Island Time

Fulfillment

The Good Life

Too Damn Old

The Grocer & His Wife

A Reveler’s Lament

Mutterings for the Paperboy

Old Raccoon

Old Raccoon II

Vanity

Mount Erie

Beecham’s Spit

Gust of Wind

An August Evening

Crush

I Apologize

Concealing Signs

My Summer Mirth

Halfway Through My Morning Walk

Bohemian Life

Sometimes Late at Night

After a Heavy Rain

After A Heavy Rain II

Blame it on the Nuns

A Politician Speaks

The Boaster

My Meditation

In the Darkness

Too Much White

On Tyrants

Necessities

What the Cat Left Behind

The Quitter

Intelligent Design

Prideful Crow

Morning Birds

Tiger Lilies

Amongst the Thickets & Hedgerows

Forgiven

Baiting

Regrets III

A Tangle of Morning Glory

Last Night’s Storm

Miner’s Moon

Freeway Lullaby

Looking Back…

Lucky

Looking Back II

Colors in the Garden

Backyard Sonata

Last Letter from Paris

Comfort Food

The Pilot’s Wife

Brother Simon

Before a Glimpse of Morning Light

Cake Eatin’ Blues

On Immortality

Koala Bears

Fog Shrouds the Pacific Northwest

I Measure My Progress Against the Tortoise

Dead Calm

To Survive in the Desert

Fishing the Lake

The Strangest One Heard

The Begging Bowl

Saint Francis

Old Hermit

After Communion

Drunk on New Year’s Day

Flies

Sad Enough

Companionship

Companionship II

Companionship III

Proving One’s Worth

The Poet II

When I Speak

When One Becomes Two Becomes One

Full Moon

Charting the Unknown

Dorothy’s Lament

Tossing Rocks

A Crow Caws To Moon

Black Belt

Tug-Of-War

Surviving in this World

The Only Medicine I’ve Ever Needed

Early Spring

Early Spring II

Only a Few Moments Ago

On Writing

As for Confrontations…

Untamed Birds

Something in the Thicket

Portrait of San Juan Island

Song of the Muddy River

As If It Were Yesterday

Yellow Bamboo

Mirror, Mirror

Twilight

Chasing Raccoons

The Pugilists

Saving A Princess from Dragons

Abandoned House

Awaiting the Arrival of Spring

My Peaceful Dream

Storm Clouds

Water Under the Bridge

I Have Loved You

Children’s Shoes

The Old Hermit

The Neighborhood

Amongst the Reeds & Scrub Grass

The Old Gardener

The Perfect Strike

River by River

Before Dawn

Watching a Hawk in Flight

Junuary

Taps at Sunset

A Dream for Their Children

The Old Couple in Union Station

Bitter Blows the Wintery Wind

Of All the Months

Old Age Woes

My Wish for You, Crow

China Town

Burglars & the Old Woman

Knowing A Woman

Pruning the Junipers

Can You Tell Me

The Distance Ahead

But for a Brief While

Millennium

Running Away

Zen & the Art of Grazing

God’s Work

A Simple Truth ‘Bout Gastropods

Good Fortune

Such Solitude to this Morning

As I Think I Am

From This Distance…

Different Plans

Cutting the New Zealand Flax

Marionberry Wine

Tea House

The Chase

Hiking in Springtime

Red Fish, Black Fish

Boyhood Dreams

Sympathies

In the Pub

Spring Has Arrived

43E

This Is What She Said…

Endless Blue Sky

Waiting at the Sacred Well

Dream Antelope

On the Somme Battlefield in Northern France

Portrait of the Sea

Winter Sleep

There Is a Rhythm to the Universe

Old Hermit & the Bear’s Cave

A Spider’s but a Tiny Thing

Many Moons Ago

Old Dogs

Upon Visiting the Neighbor’s New Pond

My Heart is a Reservation

Consuming Moon

Purple Is the Heather

Upon Finding a Spider Blocking my Path

Walking Through the Forest Early One Morning

Broken Cookies

Conferring with the Moon

Queen of Spades

Crafting Poetry

Reincarnation

Top of the Bluff

The Life of a Kenshi

Watching the Neighbor Boy Kick a Soccer Ball

Upon Visiting a Coin Shop

Crow Staring

Beachcombing

Beachcombing II

My Neighbor

At Guangzhou Station

Reborn

Body Clocks

A Tempting Target

Keeping Company

Keeping Company II

Pagodas

The Clock Keeps Ticking…

Naughty Crows

A Different Song

Squirrels

Deer Tracks

Pike Place Market

Insect Wars

Out of Respect for the People

A Thousand Yellow Butterflies

Every Pleasure Has Its Pain

From My Backyard Patio

Ode to Chivalry

Perfection

Special of the Day

Wind Chimes

Blackjack

Bee at my Window

A Humble Life

Blue Summer’s Day

Rabbits

To the Old Battlefield

Late into the Night

Looking for Crow in a Night Sky

Late into the Night II

On A Saturday Afternoon

Late into the Night III

Wish on the Moon

Poinsettia

The Vegetable Garden

A Darkening Forest

After a Spring Snowstorm

Just as Sweet

Mowing the Lawn

Dancing with a Broken Heart

Our Misfortune

Night After Night

The Lighthouse

A Painted Paleness

Stakes in the Garden

Fetch

Fetch II

On Fish & Loaves

Winter in the Pacific Northwest

The Meadow

Sunlight in the Valley

Dead Reckoning

On A Spring Morning

You Ask Me What I Think of You

World War III

Down The Bamboo Spigot

Dead Reckoning II

Much Bigger Than Yourself

The Hobo Shanty at Night

Yellow Canary

Artesian Well

Liturgy

A Dusting of Snow

When Wolves Returned to the Yellowstone

My Best Friend

Spider

Rising in the Moonlight

Winter on Chuckanut Drive

Potlatch

You Know, Michael

A Warrior’s Awareness

Golden Cargo

Reflecting on Thirty Years of Marriage

Sneezeweed

The Writer’s Life

Fallen Warrior

Glories of my Youth

The Insatiable Appetite of T-Rex

Black Belt Initiation

Autumn’s Arrival

Winter Dream II

Cooling Rains

Bachelor’s Lament

Past Bursting Cattails

Eye to Eye

An Anthropologist Speaks of His Time

A Chorus of Bullfrogs

Adrift

John Stinky

Hallowed Halls

At My Birdfeeder

Never Make the Mistake

August Twilight

I Bring Her Roses

Artisan’s Craft

Tonight

On Previous Lives

After the Heron’s Visit

Song of the Bullfrogs II

Gypsy Dream

Song of the Canada Geese

A Family of Raccoons

At the Edge of my Dream

This Is How It Goes…

Gazing Upon the Stars

Ode to a Nam Vet

Arrival of Winter

Fly in my Beer

Sunday Morning

Chasing Butterflies

Night at Nanhu

Coyote Dream

Ode for the Sports Wannabe

To See What I Can See

From a Photograph of my Father

Poet of the Boardwalk

The Simple Life

The Boat I Sailed Through Childhood On

Big Guy

Grendel’s Arm

Everything a Place in the World

Possum Tales

Down at M Dock

Mermaid & Pirate in Moonlight

The Art of Negotiation

The Unbelieving

Song of Drumming Rain

Species Corvus

A Civil War Soldier’s Message

Whatever Generosity Winter Offers

Blue Sky & Mind

The Penitent

Worn Penny

Your World

From My Garden

On Longevity

The Myth of Atalanta

Island Sunset

Doing the Heart Good

Beyond My Kitchen Window

Old Ponds

Prayer for the Fallen Angels

A Foot in Both Worlds

Beneath the Flowering Canopy

DiMaggio

Forty Acres &…

Skinny Dipping

Wondrous Spring

Contemplating the Future

Something About Ancient Stone Walls

The Waitress at the Strawberry Patch Café

The Distance Between Us

Dragon Kite

Casanova Contemplates Retirement

Five Birds at my Feeder

Sea Lions

Contemplating the Night Sky

Arrival of Autumn

Autumn Arrival II

Questions

Questions II

But for the Spring…

Paupers & Princes

Heroes

Heroes II

Upon Returning to my Wife’s Childhood Home

Spring Skiing

Rural Highways

Shenandoah Cavern

Old Friends

The Princess & the Pea

Bicycle Lessons

Tomorrow’s Obituary

The Place Where Little One Lived

The Careless Mistress

Dreams

Bamboo Grove

The Bootlegger’s Wife

In A Man’s World

So Far Out

Pruning Lavender

Tonight

Life’s Simple Pleasures

Wonderful Day

Cicada

My Heart

Beyond the Peninsula

An Empty Space

Poem Written for a Summer Evening

In Retrospect

Surviving the Jungle

A Bowl of Rice

The Meaning of Life

Tropical Dreams

Give Me the Primitive Ways of the Past

War Drums

Ancient Songs

After the Second Burning

Winter Stares

Skipping Stones

Upon Having Drinks with an Old Friend at the Columbia Tower

Skipping Stones II

Song of the Lumberjack

Flying with a Broken Wing

No Wants

For My Snoopy Neighbor

Dreamcatcher

Signs

No Apologies

Portrait of a Tulip Field

The Old Crow

Scent of Spring

Before We Wed

The Shade of Doubt

Arrival of Autumn II

Crow on a Cross

Eulogy for a Vesper Sparrow

From a Still-Life of Marie

The Girl with the Violin

Token Kisses

Hermit of Possession Sound

A Warrior’s Stance

After the Passing of a Friend

The Masters of Kamakura

Late Spring

Spawning

Hiking The Forest

Until the Buds of Spring

Tending to the Garden

False Advertising

Between Sea & Mountain

Autumn Afternoon

What Kind of God…

Portrait of a Spring Evening

While Tending the Garden

Backyard Sentinel

Landscapes

Ode for the Tenth Muse

Backing The Bear Down

Earthworms

The Madness of Life

Call of the Flicker

Born Anew II

A Persistent Fellow

Clothes on the Line

Chewing My Ass

Of Elephants & Whales

Song by Song

True Lover’s Knot

Catching the Bremerton Ferry to Seattle

At the End of the Working Day

Argyle Versus the Maytag Dryer

Amongst the Trees

Life of Zen

Going to Sea

Hiking the Iron Goat Trail

The Merchant of Old Town

Eternal Springs

Driving ‘Cross America

Heron’s Way

Rice & Beans

Along the Snohomish River

Contemplating Darkness

Everything

Pitying Horses

Murder One

So Long as the Music Plays

Meditations from a Mountain Temple

Pulp Fiction

Bergen-Belsen

Island of the Turtle

Outside the Local McDonalds

Recital

Long & Arduous

Do You Ever Think About Me?

Golfing

You Wish

A Gracious Host

Well-Worn Path

Regrets IV

Just Because II

The Final Gift

Cravings

Rowboat Moored Near Bunratty Castle

What Virtue Separates a Man

On Ravens & Crows

Climbing the Pinnacle

Flower Garden in Full Bloom

Marooned Sailboat

Walking Amongst Eucalyptus Trees

Look Down Through The Ages

Not a Bird in Sight!

On Triumphs

Blossoms in Moonlight

Harsh Winter

Blossoms & the Snowflakes

On Warfare

The Empty Bowl

While Watching a Great Blue Heron

What One Could Have Taught The Other

No Sign of Winter

The Visionary

Elegy for a Failed Romantic

Deep End of the Pond

23,000 Breaths a Day

Waking from a Dream

Low Tide

Tabby Cat

Beautiful Weeds

Matters of the Human Heart

Cricket’s Song

Shadows on the Wall

Here in the Homeland

While Waiting to Board the Plane

Reconcilable Differences

Through the Wasteland

A Marvelous Thing to Behold

The Distance Between

Something Better Than That

Thinning The Herd

Practicing Amongst the Clouds

I Walk the Beach at Sunrise

All the Battles

A Little Secret

The Compromise

Scolding the Winter Wind

Where the Flock of Mallards have Gone

Back Through my Life

Awakenings

My Constant Vigilance

Common Street Names

Edelweiss

Along the River’s Edge

Crow, Oh, Crow

Contemplatin’

Where the Mountains Reach Their Highest

Once

Chi

Winter in the Tulip Fields

Leaves

With Butterfly Bush in Purple Bloom

Moonscape

The Physical World

Waiting on my Muse

They Lived Together Fifty Years

There Goes The Prettiest Girl

Winter Storms

Orange Amongst the Green

After the Windstorm

Drifting with the Tide

Seeker of Truth

Beliefs

Down in the Valley Roost the Crows

As Far as the Steller’s Jay Goes

She Works Twice as Hard

Upon the Skagit

What You Mean to Me

Above the Abandoned Indian Cemetery

Now You’ve Gone

After Raising the Price of Gas Again

Mount Saint Michaels

Conifers

What I Wouldn’t Give…

Fate

So Long Ago…

Fate II

Simply Poetry

Because She Thinks I Like Antiques

Knowing

Skipping Rocks

What’s Left from Childhood

The Ache for You

Retracing Pickett’s Charge

In the Backyard

The Race

Crazy Man

A Pinch of Fertilizer

The Denial of Jesus

Pink Dogwood

River of Life

Fishing Stanley Bay

On Guts & Glory

Grandma’s Peony Bulbs

There’s an Icy Silence to the Winter

Coming Down from the Mountain

Western Sky

Life in the Rice Fields

My Meddling Muse

A Log Washed up Upon the Beach

Separate Ways

The Rubble That Remains

Freudian Slip

Autumn Memory

Trying New Hats

The Gardener

The Myth

Ritzville at Midnight

Worship

Navigating the Universe without a Compass

All Those Things…

Spotsylvania

Hiking to the Top of Mount Constitution

Needs

Marigolds

Cricket Song

Without A Sound

When Sun Peeks Over the Mountains

A Toast to Ghosts

Meditation of a Dragonfly

Luck is a Flock of Circling Sparrows

Ode To My Garden

Ghost of a Drunken Indian

Lantern Light

A Sailor’s Life

Hand After Hand

The Butcher Lady

Used Books

Birthday Poem

Indigo

Li Po Suction

Moon, Breeze, Cicada’s Song

Message to an English Teacher

Mark of Another Day

Sostratus of Cnidus

The Colossus of Rhodes

In the Mountains of Tibet

I Take my Religion Bit by Bit

While Having Breakfast at the Silver Cloud Inn

A Morning Run

Counting Days

From the Outside In

Patching the Old Scarecrow

A Walk Through the Neighborhood

Grandfather Clock

Wind Chime

The Scent of You

The New Priest

Fear

Above This Mountain Peak

Narrow Minds

Skating on Thin Ice

Waiting Out Winter

Watching White Clouds Drift…

Swan Song

Solicitors

My Heart

Fica Benjamina

Who Knows What…

An Optimist’s View of Spring

Raven, Moon & Stars

Voice of the Wild Place

On the Meaning of Words…

Fish Story

A Warrior’s Death

For Just a Little While

Far As I Can Tell

A Pleistocene Crocodile on the Wall

When Raven Attempted To Steal The Sun

Searching for You

Searching for You II

Navigating Waters

Low Tide II

Tell Me, Cow

What I’ve Learned from Picking Marionberries

Beyond the