Dishpan

The poem is from her collection “Living Tilted” published in2016. The book, she writes, is “celebrating an old way of life in an ancient house in a Maineforest, now called ‘living off-the-grid’.  No electricity, no indoor plumbing, no running water, nosolar panels.  Time is slow, chores rule the day.  I learned the techniques of survival as a childfrom my aunt during the Great Depression, and later from those who still remembered the oldways.  At the age of 90 I still can manage, although with difficulty, and I escape to Portlandduring the winter.  Still, poems grow well off-off-the grid.”