Poem in Formidable Woman Sanctuary
Many thanks to D Ellis Phelps for publishing my poem, “Wild Things”, in her wonderful Formidable Woman Sanctuary. Continue reading Poem in Formidable Woman Sanctuary
Category: My Poetry
Poems in The Sunlight Press
I’m tickled to have two poems in The Sunlight Press this week, although “tickled” doesn’t exactly match the tone of the poems. But it’s best to take some sweet with the bitter, right? Warm thanks to Editors Beth Burrell and Rudri Bhatt Patel who were wonderful communicators and cheerleaders. I recommend The Sunlight Press for reading and submitting. Continue reading Poems in The Sunlight Press
A Surprise!
I woke up the other day to a SM post from Revolution John magazine that I’d been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Surprise is putting it mildly. It’s always wonderful to be nominated for literary recognition and I want to thank the Editors for believing in my work. The piece nominated is a Cento so I want to thank the poets whose lines I borrowed to create “You lied to me.” You can read the poem here. Continue reading A Surprise!
Something Small, Every Day: May Morning
May Morningcreeps forward like a mouseforaging for food.A grey veil of rain hoversover every leaf and petal.My toes in my slipperspoint out into the daybut my fingers curled arounda cup of tea pointtoward my bed. Continue reading Something Small, Every Day: May Morning
NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: An Insomniac Remembers
An Insomniac RemembersI used to fill my ears in the haunting hourswith booming hair metal I didn’t even like to drownyour floating face behind my eyelids, butstill the memories rose like ghost-vapor where I’d lie by yourside once again when … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: An Insomniac Remembers
NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: A Hundred Kinds of Flowers
A Hundred Kinds of Flowers: A CentoBreak open and never close again.Every morning I want tokneel down, still in love with life, the pieceof God that is insideof each of us.I don’t know exactly whata prayer is, I do know … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: A Hundred Kinds of Flowers
NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: Spring Morning
Spring MorningUnfolds as soft as the lushestcashmere, a light breezeflows over skin as cool and sweetas the clearest, most virgin waterat the beginning of time.Squirrels, birds, and tiny insectschatter, tweet, and wiggle in adoringluxury where time matters not at allexcept in anticipation of tomorrow’s dawn.NaPoWriMo 4/23/25 – 9:45 am sitting on the patio with Buddy Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: Spring Morning
NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: Down the Bayou
a secret closedin a swampsmearedoff the mapnever to returnmistakes survivedhurricanesbegan to diestill true Erasure poem created from the essay “Don’t Bleed on the Artwork: Notes from the Afterlife” by Wendy Brennen in Oxford American, Spring 2024. I took a few … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: Down the Bayou
NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: A Quick & Dirty Ditty
Baby girlMake smoke of marbleChampagne of lifeLet laughing dance toWomanly likes It’s day 12 of NaPoWriMo & I visited the online Magnetic Poetry Kit. Not bad advice, huh? My “Something Small, Every Day (or so)” series is inspired by Austin Kleon’s piece here where he says, “Building a body of work (or a life) is all about the slow accumulation of a day’s worth of effort over time.” Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: A Quick & Dirty Ditty
NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: Reunion Dance
Reunion DanceI got a room at the top of the world tonight,on a sultry Summer night I drive into town.Where neon flashes & voices are brightin barrooms & nightclubs, a chaotic sightin kaleidoscope movement my body drowns.I got a room … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: Reunion Dance
