Read Some of Ellen’s Fall Poetry

Bonfire Night

One by one the bonfires come
snapping loud and leaping high –
orange dancers in the night
with gray scarves twirling in the sky.

One by one the bonfires go
stepping slowly out of sight,
long gray scarves about their arms –
tired dancers in the night.

EBO

Wind Dance, Scholastic Canada, 1999

Sky Breakfast

Delicious egg
cracked in the pan
of Heaven –
white
thickening
about
its yellow yolk,
salt
sprinkling
in the dark
long before
we wake up
ready
for
breakfast.

Setting: Round Pond, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, 1964.

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Header illustration from A Letter from the Snow