Rosebuds
It's weird the way words create – Seriously. The genesis of everything is phonetic, from alphabetic to tonal, regardless of the language. It's a creation-...
2020 Sunsets - April “Majestic… Oh Beautiful for Spacious Skies”
The ‘stay at home’ regimen of 2020 due to the pandemic had many down sides, but it did have one upside for myself. Staying at home gave me the excuse to...
A Golden Shovel for Mr. Hughes
(On the Absurd Existence of the Powerless)Here I hang from this high tree, say What,While the Big G just sits up there, who happensTo be punching holes in...
From the Earth to the Stars
Hiking in the woods on a cool morning.I’m glad now that I decidedto pull on a second shirt.The black dog is finding scents of wild things.The sun is finding...
A Time to Dance and a Time to Not Dance
My younger sister and I were active kids, and we were encouraged by my mother to engage in creative play. We were rarely told to “calm down.” When that did...
Speaking in Tongues
On the day it finally snowed, we drovehome, with the dog licking the windowin long, loud slurps, as if a springhad welled up, conjured from the car,as if the...
The Week of Young Loss
(Lost Young)For Jenn and ShorndenCan you hear that?It’s the mooncalling you homeUsually the needleworks its way acrossthe record stayingin the grooveBut at...
Roasted Red Potato and Cauliflower with Leeks and Garlic Soup
Ingredients:2-1/2 lbs red potatoes, 1/2-inch cubed with skins on1/2 head cauliflower, cut into 1/2-inch pieces1/4 cup olive oil1 leek, sliced 1/4-inch...
Whirlwind
The fairy tale story I had in mind during this underwater photoshoot was one of a princess being protected during a magical storm by her winged fairy...
The Promise of the Stellar Charm
for Lila on the occasion of turning 13 Before the rising of the stars there was the goddess,whose labor is marked by the milky pattern leftwhen she flung...
Materials for His Dream
or What Happened at the Wedding The man had belly pains. He told his daughter and she took him to the Emergency Room. The doc told them to go back to the...
2020 Sunsets - May - “Finding Calm Amidst All the Chaos”
The ‘stay at home’ regimen of 2020 due to the pandemic had many down sides, but it did have one upside for myself. Staying at home gave me the excuse to...
A Great Life
I may never have a poemin a major anthology or in aprestigious literary magazinebut today a poem of mine isfolded up in one of theback pockets of the...
The Party
I’m sick of you and meThe way we thinkThe way we’ve come to beTalking at partiesSpewing all that we knowEating cocktail weeniesFrom paper platesThat bend and...
Lobster Pasta
A Recipe for Two 1 live lobster, any size½ box of pasta (8oz) – your choice of spaghetti, linguine, fettucine, etc.5 strips of bacon1/3 cup of dry white...
Milkweed
Small fluffMilkweed whiteColor nonebloodFlight of theCherry girlNew merciesScatter shotRedSacred girlWhat happensWhen you seeSky blueFloweringStuckIn the...
Runways of Runaways
Smoke unfurls under a light,midnight Cowboys and Cowgirls stalk steadyhalf-dressed streets, runways of runaways.They are unfinished manuscripts...
Dorothy Recalls a Missed Call in Seattle from La Guardia
(a found poem after Thomas Travisano's 'Love Unknown') its not your fault hisvoicemail dropped he calledflew its not your faultin on sunday please dont weep...
You came to life, slowly
exhuming yourself fromthe pure haunt of yourdiseaseYou were a Raggedy Ann dollblood red spots on your smileyour own voodoo dollan abandoned Cabbage Patch...
Chihuly in the Forest
Crystal Bridges Museum, November, 2017 Goblets for water and wine, the odd stein, a bottle,glass plate, vial, cruet, baronial pitcher,crucible, computer...