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PoetryInstinct
The hammock is hung between aspen and oak which means one day logic will flutter its pretty fingers and fall on its head. Our…
PoetryCalm enough
I’m floating on an inner tube in the middle of Lake Erie miles away from the shore where no man should be floating on…
PoetryNational Geographic and the Political Landscape
Ancient Rome became like that alligator with its mouth open wide, swinging east and west at a pack of lions surrounding it near waters.…
PoetryWalking The Circle
deciding to get started I left the destination arriving when it all looked familiar but, this time, recognizing everything I missed
Poetryunceremoniously
a dear friend recently died unexpectedly voluntarily taking with him some of our pain and most of the answers leaving us with all the…
PoetryVACANCY
the night is wide open legs a woman on the bed with tarantula calves a wine bottle on the dresser with your conscience
PoetryE. E. Dickinson
I wrote and wrote prolifically — But what’s a girl to do While sitting in her room all day When visitors are few. Because…
PoetryGLIMPSES OF MY MOM AND ME AFTER THE DIVORCE, 1988
my mom looks at me like "what do I do?' I am only 11 years old my mom- fun as a bag of Doritos…
PoetryBlood Rain
"Today 1% of the world is a barely livable hot zone. By 2070 that portion could go up to 19%. Billions of people call these…
PoetrySomething Keeps Cutting the Spider’s Web
Old tree is barking at the moon Squirrel is telling a tail of balance Fence is fighting off the neighbors Streetlights are glowering at…
PoetryTo the Dapple Gray Mare Who Almost Killed Me
I loved you, you know. Never mind that I was nine years old and couldn't get on by myself. Never mind the velvet hat…
PoetryMeditation
At the funeral I do not want to be the one in the coffin. I will surround myself with flowers, go to a meadow…