Photos for January Stones and April PAD 2012 property of M J Dills (exception 1/16)







Saturday, January 29, 2011

A Stone of You





I flew in over the ocean,
The mango orchards
The garbage dump
The jungle
You are everywhere


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Fish Stones and Milk





We made fish and leche de coco
The memory of love, friends and
Graceful goodbyes


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Monday, January 24, 2011

Twenty-Three





Sky like a pool of paint
In azul and palm green
Touch my skin with
Coco flavored heat


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The nose drinks
Odors that cast spells
Make like a furnace that burns
Unrelenting, remorseless


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Friday, January 21, 2011

Stones Past Stones Future





My past
Tangent to my future
Like first cousins
Who marry

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Grand Stone




Grand Canyon
Earth’s crack
From the sky
Like a gaping wound


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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Moons and Stones




Ah, the enchanted moon
Guides me
To the unmeasured honey


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Eighteen Stones, One Suitcase



Empty suitcase
Yawns in the corner
Feed it
Like tossing meat to a hungry lion


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Monday, January 17, 2011

January 17



In the name of love
Celebrate dreams
Embrace the long road forward


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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Sixteen Stones




Winter is making plans
Laugh like thunder
Tears all rain
Shake your head
And it’s snow again



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Clouds hang dark
Rain over cityscape
Slick sweet smell


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Friday, January 14, 2011

Stones of Crows




Clever, cunning, cold.
Harbingers of misery.
Jesters in the roadway.
Misanthropes of the passerines.
Laugh, cackle with imperceptible sneers.

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Klimt Stone





The enormous poplar
Bends to the wind
Never breaking
Bleak resignation


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Day Twelve





“Freedom is messy”
Say the gatekeepers
Jangling the keys

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Snowy Stones



The snow fell as on gossamer wings
Like the faeries brought it
And gnomes took it away

Monday, January 10, 2011

Silent Stone





In all the silence
One pin dropped
With a boom


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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Ninth Stone




You never knew
She was bigger than you ever let her be
Now she is your truth

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Sky Stone




Little words
Written across your sky
Messages at the end of my day

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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Stone Seven

One pale child slowly becomes herself once more
Weaving a path through a jumbled day

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Early Morning Stone





Following morning’s first urban light,
One great bald eagle, nonchalantly escorted
By a small flock of seagulls,
Begins my retail day.

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Wet Stone




Barren winter light
Abruptly interrupted
Rain returns

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Another Stone

My girl, four decades on and more,
That I could only hold you, comfort you, calm you,
As I did so many years before.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Day Three




Jan 3
Shrieks and smiles, I watch limber limbs dash and dangle against the freezing white sky. My old aching callused feet beg for the noisy car heater. My bright pink knuckles ready for the merlot.

Second Day of Stone Gathering






Jan 2
Soft girls, warm blankets, night sky, dreams of princes, tooth fairy, no little brother to bother.

Day One of Stone Gathering





Jan 1

A New Year and I‘m surrounded by the little ones, the little ones. Brown eyes, mouths that chatter endlessly, with whys and wise. Blessings and benedictions.