Living as me, in a time when Fear ruled Just about everything I thought and did — It was A new experience When I Walked to school Under the pass, Heart clenched in terror At sights of Unruly branches and weeds Almost as tall as…

These tender summer mornings over all these flower beds awaken wistfulness, turn me sharply nostalgic for hosta houses– the twig people’s sticky petunia hats, their stands of spent geranium bloom, their tricky violet-leaf tunics cinched with xylem and phloem belts.   I miss when the world could…

Thick night air humidity hanging low, creating cones of moisture below the street lights. Crickets charm their mates lazily, thunder rumbles in the distance, and lightning jumps from cloud to cloud, like children jumping on a bed. The world sleeps around me as I listen…

HER THIRD EYE She’s a psychic in denial. as everyone knows. She’ll deny her third eye though  brightly it glows.   Along with her aura she will deny that her aura bangs it right out of the sky.   Ask her a question she’ll tell…

I counted stars once not for any practical reason not for romance they patiently waited for me to finish, as if they cared   I was sitting by a campfire spitting it’s cinders as part of the evening’s death throes they fluttered skyward before dissolving…

Being a girl is easy. First, you must rarely speak and when you do, it must be hurried so you don’t take up too much time. You must be slender and reach out to those skinnier to prove you didn’t do it on purpose. You…

Desk: cluttered shadows – Baby’s breath stillborn – but not talking today, hon.

Veins open arteries connect blood pumps system flows life-giving filters cleaning the heart has a very big meaning No life without it working hard and moving pacing itself for life to stay alive smoothly No clotting Aneurisms or closures Eat health Exercise daily Or risk…

Centennial Nickel   If I had a centennial nickel for all the lips I wanted to kiss, I’d be rich beyond reason and that might just quell the questions and the questioning about what I’ve been missing.   The faces shine before me, like a…

Stop telling me what to do. Push, pull, or get out of the way, Don’t throw things from the sidelines. Don’t play games with me, mess me about. I don’t aim when I pitch, I see the target and throw,, Letting my body adjust on…