small – Lindsey Gallant

Dream Small

Posted on October 4, 2023 by Lindsey Gallant / 2 Comments

* Slow me down to the dawdling of a child,popping jewelweed pods in the lane. Hold me back to catch the straggling western light,the last low glint on her freck...

garden/growth/life/small

Sweet Pea Seedling

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Lindsey Gallant / 0 Comment

I need to go and sit beside a sweet pea seedling. To touch its tendrils reaching for something to grab hold of, the ballast for the way ahead, the ladder to he...

small/spring/story

Between the Red Road and the Sky

Posted on March 13, 2023 by Lindsey Gallant / 4 Comments

It is a dull morning, lionlike for the beginning of March, with a biting north wind sharpening the edges of muddy snowdrifts. I step through the gritty crystals...

Advent/Christmas/small

The Small Moments of Advent

Posted on November 26, 2022 by Lindsey Gallant / 2 Comments

I have just a few moments on this busy Saturday before Advent to share two things: a sequence and a secret. The first is a sequence of Advent poetry I com...

autumn/children/small/time

Out-of-Season October

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Lindsey Gallant / 4 Comments

I am huddled under heather-purple wool, writing about the darkness of fall and the sadness of all these hurricane-stripped trees, when little Ivy (always green)...