Poem in Nine Muses
My poem, Pine, is published in Nine Muses Poetry today. Thanks to Editor Annest Gwilym for giving it a home. Continue reading Poem in Nine Muses
Tag: Life
Poem: Support is Conditional
Support is Conditional Whose tongue is knocking against my teeth because it’s not mine. Judgement is a river pulling me under, pulling me down to the rapids. We give flowers, sugar, the fizz of champagne but it doesn’t matter … Continue reading Poem: Support is Conditional
What I’ve Been Up To: #Writing #Reading #Poetry #Books
January is about half over and this year is looking like it’ll be the quickest of my life. I feel like it left me back in August. Since my last post, I’ve written bits and pieces of posts in my … Continue reading What I’ve Been Up To: #Writing #Reading #Poetry #Books
Morning Meditation: The Morning After
This quiet sigh of a morning draws me in clamor and clusters now a distant prairie in another world Continue reading Morning Meditation: The Morning After
Small but Strong
let me be your smile warming in the brazen light of the shortest day *** Happy Solstice! Continue reading Small but Strong
Morning Meditation: Late Summer
Cicadas’ calls rise and fall on the waves of late summer. I snip and neaten heat weary petals – wait for nature to change her clothes. Continue reading Morning Meditation: Late Summer
Good Hearts
“Maybe being a Southern writer has always been more than stereotypes of ceiling fans and panting dogs in dirt yards. Maybe being a Southern writer is only a matter of loving a damaged and damaging place, of loving its flawed … Continue reading Good Hearts
Women of Flash
Now that Napowrimo is over, I’m settling back into my routine of morning online reading. This is my time to look for wonder-full flash and poetry and get lost in other places and other lives. There are many good writers … Continue reading Women of Flash
Riding the Ferry
The breeze off the river ruffles my hair, the sun shining on the water, diamonds with life-long intentions. I step with the crowd onto the dock – languages, scents, smiles intermingling as we move forward as one in a shared … Continue reading Riding the Ferry
Requiem for a Dancer at Jazz Fest
Brightly you shone in the crowd, yellow straw hat, gossamer scarf a floating flag in the breeze stating, “I am here!” Saxophone and guitar notes wrapped around your swaying body, arms reaching for sunshine in a sea of song, feet … Continue reading Requiem for a Dancer at Jazz Fest
