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PoetryLost and found
today marks the 40th anniversary of her death I still haven't learned how to play the drums but the January birds are singing like…
PoetryMy Sister Cape
My sister Cape was only two years older than me except for the summer months we were one thin year apart. And there it…
PoetryShow and Tell
i love my son i love each of my sons i have loved them for a long time i love each and all of…
Poetryundone
she is a blank canvas loitering on a Gothic style easel how many ghosts of painters needed to finish her shrouded pine trail?
PoetryBedtime
Dad let us stay up the nights Mom went out to sing with Sweet Adelines, saying we were big girls and could put ourselves…
PoetryOld Age Is a Laugh and a Blanket
I have Magoo eyes, narrow slits carved through bone that filter distractions and see to the future. When tapped with a toothbrush my broken…
PoetryMY HIGH SCHOOL CREATIVE WRITING TEACHER
i don't think about him much he wasn't very good and i wasn't either but marked in red pen at the top of my…
PoetryREMEMBERING HER PORCH AND THE MOONLIGHT
I remember her porch her cat in there it was screened in it was summer late at night almost morning the darkness and the…
PoetryRestraint, a How-To
Into this temper of writers called poets I shove my own shoulders Respectful of the undertaking I chisel my words and aim with care…
PoetryDistance holds our absence
There are birds here, the garden has no fence. My neighbor checks in on the roses and brushes away lice with soft working hands.…
