Denis & Margie Haack continue to write at Critique-Letters
Poetry: A Constellation
Faithfully shining this fam’ly of stars Patiently pointing in radiant song Wheeling in motion to music they sing The love in the law of…
Tag: Creation
Poetry: Awakenings
The sky held a smokelike hue as the simmering substance of fire began to arise, sculpting away vagueness, uncloaking ambiguities, gathering the world to…
Musing on the Physical
Reading the Word: Musing on the physical Some natural beauty is quiet and surprising, like the tiny flower with delicate white petals and bright yellow…
On Being a Bunny: Honeysuckle passes away
Honeysuckle died last night and today we buried her under the magnolia tree. She was Anita's eight-year-old beloved angora rabbit, a creature who delighted…
Prayer for an Immigrant
This displaced little visitor is doomed. I am used to moths that occasionally hatch out of the aging flours and grains of my pantry,…
War against Mice
I open the silverware drawer and notice little black grains and wonder who dropped dirt among the forks. Bits of bacon? Wild rice? Not…
Out of decay: the glory of morels
This past Sunday (in 2013) Margie and I wandered through five acres of woods with our good friend, Joe Schwen, organic farmer extraordinaire. The…