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Jill MacCormack
Dec 15, 20201 min read
a poem for the times
remember that you (insert your name here) are valued though your life is but a silhouette of bare limb hardwoods at dusk beautiful and...
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Jill MacCormack
Dec 6, 20203 min read
Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Played by Xaver Varnus Saved me This Complicated Day
Sitting on my couch in my humble living room surrounded by the warm ambience our brightly lit Christmas tree and feeling so many things...
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Jill MacCormack
Nov 24, 20201 min read
Feathered Still and Fattened
Despair hangs in the air like birdsong in springtime-- Striated, piercing, wanting attention and strangled with need. But cheer, although...
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Jill MacCormack
Nov 13, 20202 min read
Images--November 10th, 2020--Crows and Corn Field
Foreground: Seedheads of Golden Rod frazzled and beige tired sentinels alongside a tangle of Buckthorn whose outstretched thorny vines...
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Jill MacCormack
Nov 11, 20203 min read
War is Abhorrent
Let us be children of Peace. On the Rails to Trails in Mt. Herbert yesterday morning, my son and youngest daughter and I met up with a...
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Jill MacCormack
Nov 10, 20201 min read
i awoke with a start
i awoke with a start to see it was all just a dream my thoughts and gloomy ruminations I'd been caught in could not hold water did not...
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Jill MacCormack
Nov 9, 20206 min read
Longing for Belonging -Earth Awareness
Longing for Belonging to Earth Yesterday morning I had the great pleasure of taking part in the first class of my husband Paul’s second...
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Jill MacCormack
Nov 3, 20206 min read
What Loneliness this November Brings
Early November 2020 Mid afternoon today, we drove an hour north east to Monticello pick up a used deep freeze my uncle was getting rid...
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Jill MacCormack
Oct 31, 20201 min read
Happy-- Blue Moon-- Hallowe'en
Happy Hallowe'en! Today in Stratford, PEI we awoke to snow on top of our uncarved pumpkins lining our sandstone framed front garden....
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Jill MacCormack
Oct 25, 20205 min read
The Time Worn Path of Healing
Admit I must, I have been dwelling, of late, in other worlds. I have been thrusting myself into enchantment’s arms when my own wings have...
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Jill MacCormack
Oct 16, 20202 min read
Three October Fragments--Meaning, Love?
1) Along the trail yesterday our son pointed out how towering stalks of unharvested corn were still holding firm to October soil with...
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Jill MacCormack
Sep 26, 20204 min read
Trail Walking, Pumpkin Guts, Gratitude and Grace
Gratitude for that which we often take for granted. That is what my children's long injuries and long recoveries have taught me. That and...
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Jill MacCormack
Sep 20, 20204 min read
My Wish for Peace
Peace is where Life meets itself as a distant cousin whose face you recognize in someone dear Whose voice stirs something old and deep...
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Jill MacCormack
Aug 28, 20202 min read
Waterside Road--Two Evenings, Late August
Waterside Road, Late August This blue skied evening Curly dock stands roadside well burnished by summer’s heat a deep brown broomstick...
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Jill MacCormack
Aug 17, 20203 min read
Wildflowers of Mid-August
Queen Anne's Lace collars roadside Goldenrod, sweeps of Jewelweed crown the fade of Morning Glory's while the Joe-Pye Weed vies for...
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Jill MacCormack
Jul 23, 20202 min read
Summer Tanka for a Humid Night--COVID-19's Breathless Wrath
Humidity hangs in harbour's mouth as fog skims over river bed- empty mussel shells exposed to air- breathing deeply hurts. Something...
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Jill MacCormack
Jul 12, 20202 min read
Buoyancy and Burnout
In a world of rising seas, how to stay afloat? Buoyancy Against such weight I try to be a force which uplifts a drowning child wait a...
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Jill MacCormack
Jul 9, 20201 min read
A Stormy Sunset Tanka
Slate grey wash of cloud pulls down the curtain of night leaving saffron threads to hem the water's edge-while I am left unraveling. The...
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Jill MacCormack
Jul 6, 20203 min read
Protecting the Bobolink--An Island Species at Risk
Bobolink--grassland insectivore creature of my heart. The painted breeding male, beauty of early summer's greening hay fields--with its...
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Jill MacCormack
Jul 4, 20201 min read
Summer Night Haiku
Ecstasy of vetch stains the roadside purple while evening primrose shines. In moonlight I hear the silent tangle of green and vine call...
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