GT GoodwininILLUMINATIONTwo Days in PetoskeyThe wind moves unimpeded across Horton Bay in long sustained blasts with no barriers to break its ambition. In the distance I see the point…Sep 30, 2021Sep 30, 2021
GT GoodwininILLUMINATIONBrief history of the deaths of our mothersOur mothers are dying and we attend their funerals in turn. Their husbands, our fathers, wander aimlessly among the other graves, silent…Feb 20, 20212Feb 20, 20212
GT GoodwininILLUMINATIONNot quite poetry, but the week in review.I walked the entire circumference of a dying lake just south of here. The stark band of earth that now rises above the waterline was once…Jan 23, 20213Jan 23, 20213
GT GoodwininILLUMINATIONJournal notes on night sky, 5/19/15To the south, a thin hook of moon floating just beyond the jagged scalp of Taylor Ridge.Jan 11, 20213Jan 11, 20213
GT GoodwininILLUMINATIONNervous WaterNiki’s cheek began to ache against the flat hardness of the wall beside her bed. The cold plaster against her skin reminded her of fishing…Jan 7, 20212Jan 7, 20212
GT GoodwininILLUMINATIONRabbits at Rea field, 1862In our own fields we’d have shot them, gathering their bodies in warm fistfuls of soft brindle ears and piling them skinned, slick and…Dec 30, 20203Dec 30, 20203
GT GoodwininILLUMINATIONPoetry as a second languageTed Kooser and Jim Harrison communicated for a time through poetry. Postcard missives crossing the country over several years, fragments…Dec 27, 20202Dec 27, 20202
GT GoodwininILLUMINATIONA distant fiftyFifty is a dubious milestone although I know some celebrate it. I hear of surprise parties, expensive dinners, maybe a bucket list…Dec 17, 20201Dec 17, 20201
GT GoodwinBefore the last riverWe always went to the rivers together. Sometimes there were as many as five of us, but only two or three of the diehards made these trips…Dec 1, 20201Dec 1, 20201
GT GoodwinBrief stop on Beale StreetI meant for there to be music in this story, but that’s not how it worked out. The air was cluttered with it in the early years when the…Nov 25, 2020Nov 25, 2020