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Cathy’s poem, “TELEPHONE OF THE WIND”  rings a bell with me during the holidays when we are planning the season’s festivities. We  remember past friends and family no longer with us and often wish we had expressed . . .

Matt Wakefield and John Prentice wrote this about a phone located in the woods. “The concept could not be simpler or more profound: Place a disconnected telephone in the woods, available to anyone who needs to talk to someone who cannot hear them.”

As often happens in Cathy’s poems, she takes what she is experiencing and turns it in an unexpected direction…

Enjoy the poem,

In a recent NESTER post, Maureen published FOUR SUMMER HAIKU. You are invited to read her TWO FALL HAIKU and pause for a few minutes to discover where your imagination takes you in interpreting the haiku.
“I’ve always been attracted to this form and enjoy the mental challenge of working with the five, seven, five syllable structure. I love nature and Haiku are traditionally meant to evoke the natural world so that’s another reason I’m drawn to this form of poetry.”

Mike Cohen returns to the NESTER with a prose piece you will find timely to the fall season.  It’s late October and the holidays and new year are only around the corner. A time, perhaps, to reflect on the past year and a project enthusiastically added to a new year’s resolution that remains unfinished and nagging at us to get it done. Might be a project like a scrapbook, a garden addition,  recipes to prepare, or a skiff to build in the garage.  There is still something there in the mess that begs to be finished.

You must read it to the end to discover a surprising solution!

A Pacific Northwest native, I have been writing poetry over 40 years.  My poems reflect a woman’s journey through the later years, with recurring themes of loss and renewal. I have  read at many local poetry venues and am a member of Seattle Poets Table. My first book, If the Moon Came Out Only Once