Fourteen…

green beans sliding down the wall homework floating in the tub and you, Dad with your feet in the car upside down your face in the grass dome light on for all the world to see the glitter of the can in your hand the…

#18

There is no place like home. There is no place I call home. There are places I come from, there are places I’ve been to, there are places I’m going. There is a space I’m using, a place that’s mine for occupancy, but is it…

hour 8 poem

  we need to follow the footsteps already there… fresh snow this spring we need to clean from the Apple tree we need to Watch before we need to go again… We need a New house every season

Poem 15

Pen to paper no ink, no thoughts come. Where are the words that come unbidden as I drift off to sleep or observe life passing by? Where are the words I drown in as I am overcome with emotion or love?   Eve Remillard 6/14/2015

Glint

Scrooge has nothing on the toiling ants, whose tireless pursuits are aimed at the simple desperate art of surviving, rather than droves of gold, they march determinedly up to the jar of honey, frantic and clawing each to earn their piece, each tiny pincer set…

Fire Safety

Fire Safety What one thing would I save If my home, my house Was completely engulfed in flames? I want to say my Memaw’s Bible: Her copy of King James. But her voice It calls to me, And the modesty, that I keep quietly locked…

Slumber

Slumber Virginia Carraway Stark Resting When cheekbones Start to feel numb From wishes of slumber coming on Darkness covers the world Like a blanket of water But sleep isn’t for me tonight No matter how it may coo and call Increasingly shutting eyes Feels better…

Thirteen…

The Road Not Taken   Two loves apart in a mellow mood, And since I could not have them both And be one heart, long I thought And kissed one deeply there I swooned To where he took my breath away;   Then kissed the…

Behind Proverbs Lurk The Living

When the going gets tough, the tough get milkshakes and go bowling, because it’s Saturday night and the tough need a better work-life balance. You can’t expect the tough to be on call twenty four- seven these days. You don’t earn degrees, you don’t earn…