October blooms are
heavy under gray skies.
Summer is a faded smudge
on the hydrangeas. Continue reading
Category Archives: Photography
Smiling at Eternity
Our bones are always smiling. Continue reading
To Know Much
I never know as much as when I don’t know anything. Continue reading
Hope for Heliotrope
Heliotrope was in a sour mope.
She was the last crayon picked.
She felt as if she’d been kicked. Continue reading
Mothers Near
Mother Near
I feel my mother near
in a garden,
leaves trembling,
like my heart,
as a butterfly lights
on a concrete goddess. Continue reading
Leaves Aflame
Clover Lit
Queen Anne’s Lace is
backlit by clover,
like raspberry planets
around a central star. Continue reading
Happy National Poetry Day
This is just to say…
Thank you, Earth
that held tight trees
bent to their knees
in hurricane winds and
that imprints time itself
on gorges, stone and shelf,
in the language of fossil hieroglyphics. Continue reading
Halloween Wordle Woes
A ghostly guttersnipe
crashes the party,
filching chocolate and cider. Continue reading
Looking Up
hope rises like heat
like a balloon let go
like prayers Continue reading
Lune for the Moon
gray and white,
clouds unroll like mummy wrappings
for the moon
Notes: Happy October! I’m gearing up for Halloween. Continue reading
Dinosaur Dawn
Used by Permission of Cindy Knoke
Used by Permission of Cindy Knoke
Used by Permission of Cindy Knoke
When dinosaurs greeted the dawn,
perhaps they tweeted and twittered,
while they preened and flirted,
just as their modern descendants
greet the dawn with a chorus that
rattles shutters and billows curtains. Continue reading
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