It begins with me and steps through a holiday they took in Spain some years ago when they still bothered to use gum to fill in the cracks. The lady of the house, her brother had once been married to Aung San Su Kyi. That…

Hour 1   “Don’t run around the around while  I’m oiling your straggly hair!” “Which of these goodies do you want to eat?” “Which story would you like to hear today?”   Time drew deep lines into her face and life And her wrinkles grew…

For Susan B. Anthony   Petticoats fluttered, I suppose on those endless rides across the prairie. Your heart may have fluttered, too, as you braced to speak out. So much of that ride was uphill through cold landscapes. Still, the landscape softened; hills flattened; fences…

COURAGEOUS WOMEN A woman of courage . . . To live is our grace! To have come here . . . In a patriarchal society; fighting hard to be matriarchal! It’s time … We knew! We know! Yet, someone over rode it — Commit the…

it is not every day one gets to meet a woman like you perhaps, it is the way heavens have blessed me to have known you perhaps, it is your charm and the things you did not do perhaps, your warmth is in what you…

In times of old, a woman’s worth was quite easy to define If she was “good” and didn’t speak or step one foot out of line. If she served her husband or her country that was plenty for the time. Still, a woman could be…

Taking your voice And giving it – but not away To others Who are less fortunate And can’t afford To have their own Yours will be heard Will echo – far Carrying their lives That some of them Live not by choice

She was there during my darkest days when I was afraid of my own shadow, I wouldn’t have left the basement if she wasn’t a writer. She gave me advice that I pinned to my mind. She brought me with her on her walks. She…

They gawk and gaze and fawn over her, A famous face, never changing, They click a million pictures, fly miles to see her, And she just stares back, frozen in time.   She has stories and odes written to her, There is no one who…

She is striped and small like a child, a kitten, a stranger and then the lights go down. She dominates stage and scene, her voice a warrior in layers of fight wants to be healed as if I can pull her from the ashes of…