Pat LaRose

Pat LaRose is a retired librarian, and former director of Moonlight Theater Company. Her poetry collection, "Poetry Stew" is available through blurb.com. She spends her time gardening, bird watching, swimming, reading, and walking the trails at Trustom Pond Wildlife Refuge.

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► Pat's Origami micro-chapbooks & selected poems are available below.

Origami Micro-Chapbook	Selected Poem(s)
Benches of Trusstom: Poems II
Click title to open microchap Photo by author •	Memorial Benches Names and epitaphs reveal those who travelled among these trees, below this sky, along these paths. The birders, mentors, nature lovers, friends, who walked amid the silence -- silence broken only by birdsong, trickling water, rustling leaves. They, who lingered here, came to know themselves, as much as they did these woods, this land, this pond. And now they rest, as they did when walking here, upon these benches, always remembered, always loved. • Pat LaRose © 2025
The Benches of Trustom Pond
Click title to open Microchap Photo by author •	Anonymous Bench When I can I go to Trustom. After walking the short or long walk to either Otter or Osprey Point I like to sit, let nature pull me in. My time here is best when I am no longer an intruder. I can sit on a bench and wait until that moment comes-- When bird or butterfly lands nearby, when dragonfly or bee buzzes over my head, doesn’t “sew up my mouth” or sting me, as feared in childhood. Today, I will wait on this bench until nature accepts me as part of this – this here, this now, where I believe I belong. • Pat LaRose © 2025
The Year in Haikus
Click title to open Microchap Cover Art from the Web •	February Carolina wren sings away my winter blues red roses help too March slush puddles wind snow ice green shoots green beer – lions lambs – the whole shebang August keep the long days close as the sun tilts towards less light, take breath with you December cold comes with this moon I’ll weave my winter cocoon settle in till June · Pat LaRose © 2014

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