Shall I surround you with uncles, with men from above the creek from which we come, while we shout from painted faces and you stand stock still beneath the noise and dark?
Roald Amundsen
These photographs come from the pages of The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912, Roald Amundsen's account of his expedition which became the first to reach the South Pole on 14 December 1911, just five weeks ahead of a British party led by Robert Falcon Scott.
From Public Domain Review.

Stone Curls (and other poems)
Pandemic and all, I’m cutting my grown son’s hair—outside, late on an afternoon in August.

Let Kari Float Down
I drive to the grocery store for some butter and on the way I remember not to think about her. It’s easy most days because I have made it so that she is under the surface…