Relaxed & Forward Blog

Photo & Poem: A Cure for Sadness

  Jerk out the fencing staples and carefully pocket them, leave nothing in the dirt. Pull the sagging wire fence...
Read More about Photo & Poem: A Cure for Sadness

Photo & Poem: I Cannot Know

  We became strangers. I thought I knew her so well; that place just back from her ears where her...
Read More about Photo & Poem: I Cannot Know

Photo & Poem: When the Sunset is Through With Me

  The sunset plays me. In the heat of the day, colors are flattened by glare and searchlight bluntness, work...
Read More about Photo & Poem: When the Sunset is Through With Me

Photo & Poem: Sentient

  Long in the tooth, people say. Gray hairs dusting his temple, this gelding plays the part of good uncle,...
Read More about Photo & Poem: Sentient

Photo& Poem: Go Fish

  Mom took us kids in the station wagon to the church bazaar. Homemade women’s goods for sale; boring cross-stitched...
Read More about Photo& Poem: Go Fish

Photo & Poem: Faraway Friends

  I would show you the adolescent Canada geese on the pond. Better behaved than we ever would have been,...
Read More about Photo & Poem: Faraway Friends

Photo & Poem: Dwindling Light

  His swayed back so warm in the late afternoon but he doesn’t lie down. His shoulders bear his weight...
Read More about Photo & Poem: Dwindling Light

Photo & Poem: Dry Thunder

  The draft horses galloped out of the barn and down the fence line, stood on their hind legs, pawing...
Read More about Photo & Poem: Dry Thunder

Photo & Poem: Hand

  One draws attention, standing by a tolerant gelding and playing the horse whisperer, tickling withers, teasing his whiskery muzzle....
Read More about Photo & Poem: Hand

Photo & Poem: Bond

  He said show her who’s boss. Standing with her head in the corner and hooves nervous on the straw,...
Read More about Photo & Poem: Bond

Photo & Poem: Birds and Horses

  Fences mended with twine until there’s more time. Scrubbed water tanks filled fresh, drank down to half by noon....
Read More about Photo & Poem: Birds and Horses

Photo & Poem: Invisible Rope

Walking wide beyond my grasp, only ask for his eye, now wait. His forelock shelters a glimmer of movement. He’ll...
Read More about Photo & Poem: Invisible Rope

Photo & Poem: The Sea’s Nature

  The sea’s nature is change, waves rolling one on top of the last, spent flat...
Read More about Photo & Poem: The Sea’s Nature

Photo & Poem: Flight

So still the herd, taking rest with soft flank to muscled shoulder, as the light shifts cooler. One nose lifts...
Read More about Photo & Poem: Flight

Photo & Poem: Wild and Tame

  You’ve landed in a place you don’t belong, the cat let me know, as she howled at you on...
Read More about Photo & Poem: Wild and Tame

Photo & Poem: Known

Across the long diagonal to the west corner of the dry lot, he’s on the far side of the herd,...
Read More about Photo & Poem: Known

Photo & Poem: Burning Snow

  Nature swats at the pasty insects fussing with watch stems, adjusting mechanical time. Taking one hour, exactly sixty minutes,...
Read More about Photo & Poem: Burning Snow

Photo & Poem: Lead Me

  The horse’s eye curtained by his forelock, his ear turns to stare back as we walk in matched strides,...
Read More about Photo & Poem: Lead Me

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your name and email to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.