‘Sixty is the new forty!’  – Doctors office fashion magazine headline, 2019 I just turned sixty. Years of age not degrees on a sextant though in my rudderless state charting a one-eighty through late middle-age trying to find a job befitting my experience multiple talents…

It starts slowly and then builds and builds. Pick it apart slowly, really, really, listen. Let it lull you into a state of pure peace. Forget the skyscrapers, the mountains, the monuments. Forget it all because, in this blissful moment, it is just you. There…

I entertained a demon that appeared by my bedside lurking over me I let it run its nails down my spine My fascination remained something I believe I was born with My stories of Love questioned its existence months later he returned with his bagged…

Depression  is like being trapped in a cardboard box if I were small enough to fit in the boxes from amazon that arrive full of cat food cans  taped shut no ventilation  the darkness playing tricks on me strange shapes dancing along my eyelids when…

There’s a demon inside me, always on the prowl And on The night before payday you can hear him start to howl He shares a cell inside my chest with my  heart And when he wants to escape, that’s when the beating starts. The two…

Nappytime The pitter-pat of little feet Echoes off the hardwood floor Her big brown eyes look up at me From just outside the office door   “It’s nappytime!” she seems to say Although she utters not a word She climbs my legs onto my lap…

Tears rolled down my cheeks, My car backed out of the drive. A deep breathe as I waved good-bye. My first house as an adult, Leaving it behind. All I knew was behind me as I shifted into drive. My car full of boxes, things…

  animkiig standing on the lake shore. black sky arches in a perfect “c,” cupping the lake as if to hold it in its palm. the lightning comes toward me.  in front of me. behind me a group of people, concerned for their safety, cry…

I was born old like my father before me but it was always in my mind Now I feel old in my body, and in my mind tired I am always so tired And I just can’t be the way I was before. My joints…

Seven years old and second grade With a wonderful teacher six feet tall. My love for reading and writing did not fade, I added new subjects and loved them all.   I rode the bus home an hour each day, Even then I was a…