Young children at play, learning more throughout the day, Making life long friends.

What is love? ‘What is love?’ is not a rhetorical question probably doesn’t need to be asked unless other banalities are unavailable better to have not loved and asked What isn’t love? Love isn’t the clichés you see on posters, mugs, memes love isn’t sappy…

They came for the grass and stayed for the moomories The hill was an unlikely place for romance But the wild steer and his crew knew That this was the place to eat The pretty bovine dairy cow Crested the distant hill

  Hour Ten: Ekphrastic using photo from Andrew Shaughnessy My hoofs are killing me, they need a good soak. My ribs show, so that tells you. I’m not good/ready for slaughter. Love this country though. Fresh air, beautiful sky, clear cool streams to quench my thirst, sunshine…

They were on a break – the three of them affecting the vernacular of the men who wrote for the paper they were hawking on a street corner in St. Louis – when a photographer saw them laughing between puffs. Previously, they’d been standing apart,…

If I had hope I’d call you back and calm you down the way you like while Croce sings you lullabies and Peter, Paul and Mary cry   If I had hope I’d apologize and swear not to do it again while you tell me…

the gumball machine belonged to my sis. i wanted it, but more than this i wanted what was in it, she never let me have. one night i took the machine and smilingly said you can have it back when i’m dead. she got that…

There’s a timelessness in the sort of sorrow i’m feeling  Will it last forever, end abruptly in this brain or simply outlive my bones? Does it exist at all? I feel all of this; and now, silence.  Smile, exhale Peace is here within the lights…

It doesn’t matter What is love It matters why and who And how you love     Love is nebulous, A fuzzy nargle Refusing to be defined, Shifting itself into a shape to fit Each imagining     Better to ask How long, how much,…

Beyond Family   Family is now a generic term. Family is a wide-open umbrella. Blood or not blood. This is how most of the world sees family.   The indigenous tribes see family everywhere. That is why we call the Earth, Mother.   A mother…