2 comments on “Fireweed

  1. CHARLES E STERNHEIM says:

    ‘Oregon Donation Claim’

    Before the European settlers came to Netarts Bay, I suppose Tillamook Native Americans lay ‘claim’ to this land, basket-weavers and fisherman with names like Chenoa and Achak, whose remains may lie near the pioneer cemetery, which would make them near-neighbors with O’Hara and Harris. So as we ‘unseal part of our past’ and honor those who prospered in this water-land with moving words, please let us remember those who lie beneath ‘granite markers,’ as well as those who lie beneath the unmarked, soft wet, earth.

  2. CHARLES E STERNHEIM says:

    Three Love Poems

    I.

    I watch the girl who is watching her crush go past her house and I’d like to yell out, “He’s the wrong guy for you, just move on,” but of course I knew that wouldn’t work, as I turn to look at myself in the mirror and recall that my last crush lasted so long I could hardly remember why I liked her. Thank you, Nancy, for allowing a reader to jump into your poem as an observer.

    II.

    And thank you, Nancy for saying, “No,” to this one, “you have no business being anywhere near them. Just wait outside the house and offer her ride home, if and when she comes out.”

    III.

    NYU is one of the top three landowners in New York City and One Fifth is certainly a building where ‘the dean of something’ can live until, perhaps, he behaves unprofessionally. So, Nancy, if you were ever to run into the coed whose ‘moment faulted,’ you might want to tell her, “Whatever didn’t happen saved the dean his deanship.”

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