The Moment After Section :: Page 3

• BLOG— On Trump’s triumph

  By Audrey HackettNovember 15, 2016

  

  In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the words of a fine Norwegian poet came to mind: “It’s not all as evil as you think.”

• BLOG— Intimate strangers

  By Audrey HackettSeptember 20, 2016

  

  I don’t make a habit of riding around town at dusk, but maybe I should! The rewards are subtle. I’m not looking for anything exotic from my fellow villagers, just plain life. A woman at a sink. A man in a chair, inspecting his glasses.

• BLOG— Hello, season of good-bye

  By Audrey HackettSeptember 13, 2016

  

  Fall is slightly seedy, a tad disreputable. There’s that whiff of decay, of course, and the distinct and accurate sense that things are coming apart at the seams. Fall is a thrift-store velvet jacket, wine-stained purple, with your elbows showing through.

• BLOG— In sorrow and in joy

  By Audrey HackettAugust 23, 2016

  

  They got married in a garden bordering an old-growth forest. I love the symbolism of that. Their lives are theirs to cultivate, and I have no doubt they will grow a good garden together.

• BLOG— The power of neighbors

  By Audrey HackettJuly 19, 2016

  

  What’s a neighbor? Someone you live near. Someone you’ve likely not chosen to live near, but do. Your neighbor may grow to be your best friend. But most neighbor relationships are probably less soul-close than proximity-practical.

• BLOG— Of fireflies, stars and time

  By Audrey HackettJuly 12, 2016

  

  I could stay out here all night, looking at the white stars, the golden fireflies, the dark shadows against the dark house. Everything I see prompts the question, Are you seeing this, are you really seeing this? I want to see; it feels like knowing, which feels like living.

• BLOG— Remembering Long Pond

  By Audrey HackettJune 14, 2016

  

  Long Pond was a lake, despite its name. It hung like a particularly wet piece of laundry on the line that was Moose River. The river fed the lake, and the lake, nine miles later, fed the river. Long Pond was a pause in the river’s flow — the river putting up its feet and taking a break.

• BLOG— Bike path poet

  By Audrey HackettJune 7, 2016

  

  The best poem I’ll ever write is the one I’ll never write. It’s the one I’ll write only in my head, under the influence of bicycling, which apparently is for me as potent as the more illicit highs other writers have pursued for inspiration.

• BLOG— In summer’s country

  By Audrey HackettMay 31, 2016

  

  And that’s how childhood seems to me, a place more than a time. I still dream about certain things: the creek, the cherry tree in the backyard, the concrete front stoop that was a clean, if somewhat bumpy, slate for drawing.

• BLOG— ‘A very, very fine house’

  By Audrey HackettMay 24, 2016

  

  Like a lifetime achievement award, Yellow Springs bestows the moniker of home ownership at the end of a person’s career, not at its beginning or mid-point. And why not? A person doesn’t own a thing just because a piece of paper says she does.