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Planting a flag atop the building site. 1999—The strawbale house we build will be called Yashi— from Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood— the name for the second heart that grows in a person and holds all the memories of one’s ancestors. May it be so.

On the scaffold, stuffing clay into straw.

Yashi, finished.

Off-grid solar shed, January.

We call the land Laughing Bird, and crows, magpies, and wild turkeys visit us daily.

With Kathleen.

A few of Joy Boston’s sculptures.

Storm clearing.

View to the south. Joy and Pearlie.

Yashi inside.

Winter night, warm inside.

Round window.

Inside the round window.

With Julio.

Growing in summer, legal at last!

Reading my hot-off-the-presses new poetry book to human and dog friends.

Bedroom

My parents’ grave, just up the hill—springtime-blooming in mullein.

Running on Cargo