Dana SwansonRobberyShe keeps miniature wooden monkeys sitting on tiny lawn chairs in her plate cupboard, so when she opens it, she smiles. But that was not…3 min read·Mar 3, 2022----
Dana SwansonPostmanThe sky is the color of an early snow morning with cloud stripes blocking the sun. It is very, very cold. The postman, Jim Solomon, walks…2 min read·Feb 2, 2022----
Dana SwansonMeatloafShe wanted to walk up the front steps, enter the yellow house she passed every day, and sit down to a meatloaf dinner. As if she lived…1 min read·Jan 29, 2022----
Dana SwansonRetrievalI want to go way back in my past and rake up the things I have dropped so carelessly in my long walk forward. The pennies and nickels and…1 min read·Jan 27, 2022----
Dana SwansonYellow Birch LeavesThe external world literally pulses on my walk to the park. I see fall birch leaves covering the sidewalk between each cluster of…1 min read·Jan 21, 2022----
Dana SwansonSWIMMINGI avoided any kind of athletics as a kid as I was so awful at everything and sometimes dangerous. Ask the row of people falling on their…2 min read·Jan 20, 2022----