March 19, 2018

A boy in Tampa made this haiku for me, asking for a single evocative word to start with. I gave him “agate.”

Such layers in this stone
like layers of the earth:
a world of agate.

Missing a syllable, but he was striving with his typewriter the whole time.

Barbara Boylan has died of Alzheimer’s. Never was there a more vibrant woman–before all that. Her porch in Fairview was thronged with hummingbirds.