Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
Joy and Thanksgiving
It's PoetryFriday! Want to know more? Click here. This week's round up is hosted by Denise at Dare to Care. Join us! Our property received a forest service grant for a much-needed tree thinning. They dropped upwards of 200 pine and fir across 3 acres in two days....
BOOK REVIEW: WHEN TWILIGHT COMES
Do you have a favorite time? Time of year? Time of day? Marcie Flinchum Atkins’ latest book, WHEN TWILIGHT COMES: The Animals and Plants That Bring Dawn and Dusk to Life (illustrated by Michelle Morin; Chronicle Books, 2026) came out in March. This poem-as-a-picture...
the land itself remains constant
the land itself remains constant (a found phrase from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe) we raised a family in the mortared dustmotes and drops of petrichor, a land of desert love that flushed itself into our veins, rooting its remains in our bone marrow––...
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Published poet & kidlit writer
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