MATTER
Matter persists… Read More MATTER
Tag: death
THE TALL STRANGER
When the tall stranger steps into my kitchen…… Read More THE TALL STRANGER
VIGIL
She is sixteen when leukemia claimes her…… Read More VIGIL
PERSISTANCE
Do not spirits too persist?… Read More PERSISTANCE
PROMISE
Please no box, no steel to seal me from the earth. Return me when it is my time to all I was and wish to be again. Release me to be born anew, green and wonderful each Spring – shoots sprouting from my heart each part of me blooming. Promise me.
FLYING FREE
To go in a puff of feathers, a glory of days…… Read More FLYING FREE
FOXCROSS FARM
When I think of the farm it’s the stone bridge and countryroad curving by the low barn. It’s Tony’s tomatoes, white peacocks. When I think of the farm, I see pinetrees, green pastures, the bramble roses by the creeksheep standing in the field. When I think of the farmI watch women spinning woolthe whir of… Read More FOXCROSS FARM
SMALL ABANDONMENTS AND LEAVE TAKINGS
I thought elephants danced in the car as my aunt clasped me, age two with pneumonia and mom drove to hospital – I screamed when they left so the doctors forbade future visits. I was alone with nurses and needles for two long white weeks. Pat left me tied, age five, to a phone pole.… Read More SMALL ABANDONMENTS AND LEAVE TAKINGS
PASSAGES
Midnight wings unfurl into updrafts of spirit. Does seed fear the ground? Waves the sea? A dog barks in a mountain village as color falls from treasured face. What’s the weight of a breath? The heft of a sigh? A husk drops to the ground to rattle and roll down the hedgerow. In their earthen… Read More PASSAGES
SHEPHERDESS
She fell like seed on good ground – giving herself as final gift to land she’d walked and worked for years. Leaving stories, laughter, tears, memories of forthright speech the love of liberty – her fierce, unyielding heart, flying free. … Read More SHEPHERDESS
A WELL TRAVELED HEART 