First there wasnothingNothing to see That wasn'tof darkness Not your hand orthat of another Not your reflectionon the firmament.Not until therewas starlightCould you discernthe face of another*First there was nothingThen there was everything.…
Noonday lays bare—an open parenthesis,summering endlessly with cicadas' melodiespumps me buoyant, all tensions easeBut the seagull washed up in the sea...How do you figure?The tiny red spider waiting by the…
Kousa Dogwood your rough bark animates myyard at all timesthe symbol of you fires meas days drag on your cover of branches shadesmy patio your crowned hair awakens meto the new springred…
swaggering in properregalia arrives Springrousing us to atime of enliveningthe kaleidoscopeof hues beguilingwhere only yesterdaysnow lay slumberingnow crocuses fromhilltops cascadingthe colors seeping inlike full moons explodingreadying one and all,and fecundity…
Written for Whimsygizmo: Quadrille #195 – Don’t Touch that Dial! (Stay andWrite a Poem) You say that under the noon heat asphalt softens and floods and that under a moon-blanched…
Written for De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) @dVerse Quadrille #193: Poems in a Pinch Somebody, Pinch Me I’m feeling pinchedand harriedfrom the ticking ofthe clockIt’s already half pastyesterday,I’m wound tight—I could…
Are you inconvenienced by the Indian summer refusing to leave? The whole situation has Summer Faery pouting. She's waiting on the one lone warm day that's to report to duty: it's gone astray! This is a Public Announcement.
It's too hot, too hot, too hot baby--turn on the radio!
Couldn't resist this luminous prompt at dVerse to write a Quadrille employing the word star. Won't you give it a go, too? It runs until Friday. See you inside. xo
"I know there are horrible, awful, tragic things going on in the world." ~ Merril "won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life?” ~ Lucille Clifton.
The town school I went to was near the sea, and our spelling bees usually took place outdoors to accommodate a worthy audience. What was your experience like?