Tag Archives: Anne Haven McDonnell

Bringing a Darkness Into the World – Patrick Lane’s Witness By Poem and Prose to the Hunting (and Haunting) Death of a Cougar in 1949

March 20, 2023 – 7:36 pm

COUGAR The cougar before she falls from her high limb holds for one moment the Ponderosa pine, her back arched, her tail so still the forest stops. There are silences to learn, each one an invocation: the one that follows a father’s rage at a child, a woman’s rage at a man, a child’s tears […]

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Guest Poetry Blog # 9 – Entering the Wild – American poet Todd Davis Features American poet Anne Haven McDonnell – Part Two of Two

March 18, 2023 – 2:51 pm

Shadow into Wolf On the long low-tide of seal spit, I studied just beyond the horizon of sight—a dark twist of driftwood, black against the sandy bank and shag of cedar. Thought it’s just like my mind to make a branch a wolf snout, profile with two ears pricked towards our boat where you load […]

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Metaphor as Mystical Transformation– Guest Poetry Blog # 9 – Introducing the Latest Contributor, American poet Todd Davis – Part One of Two

March 16, 2023 – 7:41 pm

Transfiguration of the Beekeeper’s Daughter Because the bees flew toward light the color of honey, she couldn’t see them but heard their hum, deep thrum of the colony come out of the hive, comb dripping with loss and the smoke her father used to subdue, to pacify the fear that might spur an attack. It […]

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