Her look suggested I’d asked her to move to Yemen “I’m not throwing this out.” She placed it gently on a nearby table. “I’m keeping it”. “It’ll melt, brainiac.” Rose plopped nearly busing tray back on the rack. I love you, Mike, but I worry…

My home is filled with totes and boxes packed for tomorrow’s move. Some of life’s moves are joyful and adventurous. This one is not. Forced out by a rent increase from a place that I have loved, I feel displaced. Tomorrow I will unpack, start…

Less than 12 hours before I begin my very first poetry half marathon. Looking forward to it! I suspect this will be more challenging than the “Pulitzer Remix” and the “Oulipost” since these two were daily challenges and there were 24 hours to ruminate over…

Here we are, June 26th, 2021!! Time to start and tech monsters already showing up. No matter, we forge ahead. My name is Kathleen Kidder, although I use Katie, Kat, or Kathy online. May it inspire us, refresh us, and deepen our perspective on the…

the door is opened i cry you sigh we say good-bye once again  

I will celebrate this day under the moody sky looking at the yawning flowers watching the doubtful birds fly   I will not unearth any of those wonderful things letting things be as the Church bells ring   The rolling hills challenge my eyes to…

The dawn of a new day The skies open armed Ready to receive a new wave Upon the shores of life’s oceans. The possibilities a vast array Of rainbow colored sunsets And opportunities to be embraced. Our presence here All the reason to have faith…

All it took was one prick To get back And the first place I go Is to see a musical   The end of an era  

Flaming red sky liquid refreshment on the way earth licks her parched lips.

Marqueda in Ebony, dances in the river of Louisiana Its CEO who founded it in 1918 host of patriarch’s, of Marqueda that inherited the estates mine oils graves for decades A MTA grounded in places Continue of its history Geography arts pictures, of its memoirs…