The moment of knowing loss Is filled with so much emotion The sudden emptiness The stop of the current between you   Death will come to us all At some point in time But before it does We will experience the loss of many  …

The edges and the corners That is where i find you Edges and corners The ends of my being Here you choose tobe I am no more here Beyond this is air But of a But all of my existence is here On the edge…

lavender and more, topped with that essence of gentle hard core raw love…

the girl child came early to church to help prepare the sanctuary place the candles put the ribbons into the book in the right places place flowers in vases for the altar she vacuumed and swept even used Windex and newspaper on the stained glass…

Boardwalk   I never could have dreamed of craggy snow peaked mountains as the matter of fact backdrop to the lakes and rivers of the west.   The skyscrapers that defined tall would be a speck against them. And the boardwalk that I trek almost…

‘I am so lucky to have a friend like you It sounds cliche but feels so true Because you love me and you make me feel it I can start to believe there is some truth in it When I need support you all but…

My father tells me how they suffocated the lake by dumping autumn’s aborted leaves from blue tarps bright as the sky. Took them at least a decade of raking the raw red bodies, scythe-like, of white oaks, the yellow aspen bells, to see progress peeking…

A secret is not truly a secret unless it doesn’t exist.   If there’s a ghost for each lie you’ve told, how large does your house have to be?

At this point in the process Ten hours of waking struggle My inner muse screaming for help I can only offer praise To the bed I love so and abandoned in the middle of the night Praise to sleeping in until 11 on Saturday mornings…