Three After by Danny Lewis, by Shirley Glubka

Grass Blades & Gray Water, photography by Danny Lewis (USA) 2024

​Purity

The photographer came,

knelt, 
clicked.

Soon night fell.
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Foam on the Penobscot, photography by Danny Lewis (USA) 2022

​Reading Philosophy

Every day I seem to weave a patterned piece 
from threads of mental effort, often beautiful.

Every day I see the piece from yesterday 
has in the night unwoven, a little miracle.

Reflections at the River’s Edge, photography by Danny Lewis (USA) 2024

Layer, Fold, Sense, Welcome

          I spend my glowing time Eternal, or I die.

Layer from near to far,
layer from below to above,
layer one shining moment, 

fold it in,

into the density of today, 
the complexity,
and of tomorrow, 
of life living and life lived.

Sense the spreading essence
of the gray and vital river, 
the  gray, insistent rocks,
the high green leaves, 
the sturdy thin grasses,
the reflections, the intricacies,
the silence, the strange available joy.

Welcome the presence,
the generosity of the Eternal.

Shirley Glubka
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Note: “I spend my glowing time Eternal, or I die” is derived through erasure from "Night the Seventh" of William Blake’s The Four Zoas.

Shirley Glubka is a retired psychotherapist, a poet, essayist, novelist, long-term TER enthusiast, and the author of thirteen books. Her latest collection is Feet upon the Verge: poems et cetera. She lives in Bucksport, Maine with her wife, Virginia Holmes.

Danny Lewis is a retired entomologist and amateur photographer. He lives in Greenbelt, Maryland.