(June 27, 2024)
Turkey buzzard guards this delta from fence post perch to where Salt River runs to meet Eel & both snake as one to sea. Who salted that river with her...
(June 20, 2024)
a sense of place etched on her face erosion from emotion frozen as though she'd been wrote on in that cardboard burrow where every neuro, every furrow petrified traumatized and...
(June 13, 2024)
A white woman, I had learned the history of horrors: grisly holds of jammed slave ships, cruel auctions of black families torn apart, picnics at lynchings of castrated bodies. Then...
(June 6, 2024)
It's a good thing that puppies are cute E're their fate would be in deep dispute When they while away the hours Digging deep in your flowers Pulling them...
(May 30, 2024)
My sledge hammer Reigns down, Slowly dismembering What once was Well built. Hard as I swing Each joint resists My elder efforts To move forward, With new plans. Shingles fly,...
(May 23, 2024)
Could it be Could it be I'd forgotten During the long months Of clouds and fog Forgotten the unbelievable bliss Of falling into the Infinite depth Of a clear sky...
(May 16, 2024)
(in honor of Petey Brucker) The barn swallows are back, Fresh from their long flight north. They sit on my carport roof And sing their nesting song. These old friends...
(May 9, 2024)
sometimes when a black hand is raised the two first fingers split in the air it doesn't mean Virginia Street, fool all day!!, riding..., it just means peace. It just...
(May 2, 2024)
The African violet dies. Though I've moved it to a new window, given it the perfect light, it seems I did too late. It takes every ounce of creative energy...
(April 25, 2024)
what goes better with the blue suede shoes: the pink peg slacks or the red blue jeans? This raspberry beret matches the pants, or I could do the fez and...
(April 18, 2024)
I want to be A good ancestor To plant seeds for Future generations To harvest I want to leave A foundation For strong community Happy and willing to Work together...
(April 11, 2024)
I won't check the news right now if you won't. Instead, let's think about summer peaches so ripe we'll eat them leaning over the kitchen sink, or the crunching sound...
(April 4, 2024)
Baby, I sang Guthrie for Guthrie in a psych ward in '61 Ode to the times, the times gone bye...Oh the times, they're always a-changin'. Back then, a penny was...
(March 28, 2024)
Nobody wants to hear your story about how you almost didn't choose the winning team in the March Madness bracket. Believe me. Nobody. Iain Macdonald...
(March 14, 2024)
Each up, each down, each strange, and every charm that naively splits the atom from which ghost particles emerge and leave us puzzling over metaphors and their meaning, leads us...
