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Robins from other places, daily reflection March 18

The most important things are all things I don’t have words for.  The way robins appear one morning, where there were no robins the night before, and what this does to a human throat.  The way a redwing blackbird calls, kind of like a pipe of blown glass, clipped, hitting a high and then a …

March 18, 2012 – 10:15 am | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Time and Accomplishment

I am standing in lake water up to my thighs and what first felt like necessary shock, the animal jolt I needed, has become spreading chill, like the skeleton has frozen, bone by bone.  I am five yards from a reedy shoreline and two feet from a drop off.  You wouldn’t know the drop off …

December 18, 2011 – 4:16 pm | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)