What is love?  An invitation to share your insides out to feed each other the marrow warm inside your bones to fall so deep into a well one you will struggle at times to get out If you do, you will never be the same…

    just kidding.     what is love? reaching in the night, and finding my hand warm in the golden shell of your steady breath    

Brown freckles adorn my face, arms, and legs; a few found their way to my back and my chest. I’ve no need for tattoos with these ephelis marks; oft times viewed as beauty, at others as blotches If I’m out in the sun, I produce…

My crown and glory is my hair. Thinning though it may be when it looks good, I look and feel good too. kinky, curly, wavy or straight my hair represents me. It is who I am. When it acts the way I choose I’m on…

What is love to me? It is my mother’s beautiful hungry eyes watching us eat her meal.

Hour 10 Alone (Photo of cow by Andrew Shaughnessy)   Honored. Last of his kind. Others of his herd picked off for hamburgers, fajitas, meat sauce. Revered as novelty, tourists take pictures, then go for beef fondue. Lucky. Allowed to live to ripe old age,…

What is love my heart asks and I have no reply. Poets for centuries tried to define love and a million explanations and definitions abound. Yet one has to ask, if you can define love, is it really love? Love is a feeling. A ghost…

The quail in the old Wild Area (as we called it before it was bulldozed for houses) used to use the aspen grove for their rookery. I often saw the chicks following their folk as I skirted the trail along the south side of grove,…

What is love to those who grieve? Is it a reminder that there is a pause when inevitably our loved ones leave and on our heart loss gleefully gnaws?   What is love to those who grieve? Is it a shattered moment where knees bend,…

Once ancient cultures had many words for love, many songs for it Many modern languages still do Once the old Greeks had seven main words to describe the types of love. *Main* words. But English? English fails me, fails you, fails us – fails our…