“Send me word that he has come back,” Said the prodigal son’s father. “Admittedly, he often gets way off track, Blows off steam easily and hasn’t any tact, Yet his return is worth the bother.”   “Send me word that he has come back,” Said…

Prompts Hour Four Remember, nature sings with a laconic tongue She echos the truth where primal beauty has sprung. that the strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.   Her music and dance will ensure you stay young. If you plant your heart…

Trust that I’ve always wanted what’s best for you, I don’t put much stock into assumptions and stereotypes, Cheering you every step of the way, Through the slumps and bumps, Victories and triumphs, Bring your friend never was a conundrum, I’m sure the sentiments are…

I see the strained line, Icy jagged cliffs Cutting off mother-in-law And my husband. It bursts up in the question “Where do I put that?” To the watermelon he just bought. I block the children So the flows don’t slice us. It creates impossible terrain…

From George’s Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl: “For a few brief moments he had touched with the very tips of his fingers the edge of a magic world.” Traveling to the end of the world  to touch waves lapping onto the shore, she trusted there was magic…

Wonders The Earth hangs upon nothing So does the moon — At least, upon nothing that eyes can behold The Sun remains likewise On its allotted locus   The stars, greater and less than our Sun Keep their posts, for all practical purpose Jupiter, Mars,…

Are there any questions? reverberating through my blurred hazy mind, pounding on my eardrums, heard but incomprehensible. My mouth parched, Heart thumping in my chest!   Are there any questions? Are there any questions? I had many, but my frozen brain could not formulate any,…

Terminal Case I should buy two dozen raised garden beds, gravel, dirt, and mulch, seeds, potting soil, and fertilizer, and build a green house in the back yard, plant fruit trees, berry bushes, and vines, and learn to can and preserve it all, in case…

I didn’t say I’m worthless I didn’t say I’m worthless (he did) I didn’t say I’m worthless (I thought it) I didn’t say I’m worthless (but the insinuation was there) I didn’t say

The last line by Yi Lei Long, long ago, a dried, kosher salami sought me out and filled my world with a fervor for the chewy comfort of that pinched and shriveled skin. Becoming a vegetarian, my cravings turned away from my childhood and hunted…