by Linda Buckley | Mar 31, 2021 | Pandemic Poems, Poetry
My poem today: A wet white feather flaps over eagle’s eyes. His yellow beak frosted with each breath. Beady eyes search for scraps in the snow. It’s been a long winter huddled high in hemlock and spruce. He flies low over tide flats dreaming of...
by Linda Buckley | Mar 14, 2021 | News & Updates
Off the Kona coast we sailed out on crystal waters to look for whales. Hundreds of spinner dolphins chased the catamaran leaping and spinning and surfing off the bow. A few humpbacks spouted in the distance. Tails and flukes and shiny black backs glided past. Then...
by Linda Buckley | Feb 2, 2021 | News & Updates, Pandemic Poems
I burrow deep wrapped in soft blue flannel sheets. In the distance my high altitude alarm clock, Alaska Airlines 6am flight to Seattle. I burrow deeper. In forty-eight hours I will fly away on that same early flight, get my required Covid test and then head to Kona. A...
by Linda Buckley | Jan 8, 2021 | Pandemic Poems
Scientists rallied to find a fast cure after all the suffering we had to endure. The government called it operation warp speed get those shots in their arms the mandate decreed. Moderna and Pfizer raced to the finish our fears and concerns they tried to diminish....
by Linda Buckley | Dec 31, 2020 | News & Updates, Personal Memoirs
2020 evaporated into the fog and 2021 twinkled its way into our homes. After a rare mostly sunny and warmish December day, I luxuriated in a rose petal bath. Sipping a hot buttered rum, candles flickering and French music playing I soaked all those sore muscles away....
