Tuesday, April 12, 2022: Deborah P. Kolodji's poems "The Way She Churned Butter" and "The Empty Mug"

 The Way She Churned Butter

 

cedar chest

 

                     estate sale                   

                     the price we put

                     on things

 

my grandmother’s story

 

                     sepia photo

                     her smile doesn’t reach

                     her eyes

 

about each quilt scrap

 

                     underwear drawer

                     the gun we didn’t know

                     she had

 

© 2022 Deborah P. Kolodji

 

 

Empty Mug

 

 

Cooper’s hawk

 

                     the absence of birds

                     around the feeder

                     unsettled quiet

 

all my troubles seem

 

                     so far away

                     the vivid footage

                     of bombed cities

 

so small

 

                     fallen plum blossoms

                     my place in the world

                     no longer certain

 

© 2022 Deborah P. Kolodji

 

Deborah P Kolodji is the California Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America.  Her book of haiku and senryu, highway of sleeping towns, won a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award from the Haiku Foundation.  Her 2021 e-chapbook, tug of a black hole, is available as a free download: https://e7b207b8-f70d-4a2b-9a92-95e280e7fb92.filesusr.com/ugd/8a417d_31b9e61a29aa4a5290d90d02c869f714.pdf .  She enjoys exploring botanic gardens, beaches, mountains, and deserts for inspiration and can be found on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/dkolodji/)