Marie Harris

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Where We Live

March 10, 2016 Leave a Comment

Dear Sergio: The Great Blue Heron flew over the house shortly before dawn this morning with its raucous announcement: the others will be returning to the tall dead trees in the swamp to begin the spring refurbishing of the nests…large constructs of dead branches lined with fine twigs and green leaves. “Remote, inaccessible situations are […]

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Bird

February 22, 2016 Leave a Comment

A forest burble
Liquid as the hermit thrush
But no! Crow startled

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Watching

January 11, 2016 Leave a Comment

We arrive at the dock to meet our Audubon guides an hour or so after dawn. We’re hauling coolers and backpacks crammed with extra layers, from fleece vests to windbreakers, which we begin to put on as the boat leaves the shelter of Rye Harbor and heads past the Isles of Shoals toward Jeffrey’s Ledge, […]

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Working the Piscataqua

August 7, 2010 Leave a Comment

The Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program chose 12 finalists in its “Voices and Vision” project  conceived by Portsmouth Poet Laureate John Perrault to bring together poets and visual artists to create works of public art which would then be acquired by businesses and municipal organizations and permanently displayed in the Portsmouth area. My photographer-husband, Charter Weeks, […]

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Words in progress

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A Poet for Your Bookshelf, Classroom, or Library

Welcome! Come on in and browse through my books of poetry, anthologies I’ve edited and in which my poems appear, and some essays and articles on subjects ranging from blue water sailing to New England farm stays to birding. You can also find photos of my collaborations with painters, sculptors, photographers and musicians. Listen to audio clips of a sampling of my voiceover work.

As a poet, I perform and teach at colleges & universities throughout the country, and in residencies in elementary and high schools, libraries, writers’ workshops and retreats, and senior centers. Read More…

Words in Progress

Walking Song

WALKING SONG …reminding herself that she was only an elderly woman who had got up too early in the morning and journeyed too far, that the despair creeping over her was merely her despair, her personal weakness, and that even if she got a sunstroke and went mad the rest of the world would go […]

My Brother is Gone from Us

Basil Harris (pictured with sister Anne, summer 2016) He died today. Farewell, sweet singer.

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