Katie Krueger's Snippets of Gratitude

Driving down Federal Hwy. 1 from Boca Raton to the airport, she surveys the hurricane damaged trees. Naked from the trunk up. Palms, without fronds, coming to a stump at top, the amputation of a surviving veteran. Banyans, whose roots grow from the top down, have been stripped of their roots and will have to [...]

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Fluffy Snowflakes Ducks congregating and quacking on the Yahara River Other runners passing me, smiling A guy shoveling whom I startled when I passed, making me think I’m soft on my feet and stealth The Governor’s Mansion in Maple Bluff Patches of blue in the sky The sound of snow crunching underfoot Hearing song birds [...]

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The tree on the edge of the icy embankment barely held me; I felt its thin trunk slide through my glove’s grip. I held on as tight as I could with one hand, my other clutching the camera. I can’t imagine what I would say if I returned to the office soaking wet with burrs [...]

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We arrived late enough that the usher walked us to our seats (second row!) while Youssou N’dour sang his first song. Of course there were people who were sitting in our seats that the usher had to kick out. I tried to be patient while reminding myself that the notion of reserved seats is totally [...]

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A heavy fog is draped over the earth. It covers fields and trees in the distance, muting them in to a sepia tone landscape. The world in the 100 meter radius that surrounds me is in tri-color. Sun-faded yellow of cut corn stalks. Deep mud brown of plowed earth. Dewey green of surrounding grass. As [...]

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The wind was fierce this morning. Last night, I kept waking up thinking that there were small animals scavenging around in the kitchen. With the reason that daylight brings, I am pretty sure it was just the wind knocking the window panes around. As I was driving down the freeway this morning, my little Chevy [...]

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