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memories float in unbidden like the one just now of when we’d lie on the couch, together feet to head and head to feet and you’d read to me from White Dragons I loved it most when the words made you cry because they touched your...

please be brave enough to step into the tender space that grief creates and walk beside me these fragile days do not ask me what I need I do not know I only know that my heart is shattered and it’s lonely trying to knit it...

“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.” ― Plato, The Symposium      What is the magic that draws two...

my love has grown so deep as the snow banks outside this window. Just now I scared a deer close to the glass. Helping you with your shirt collar, buttoning your cuffs, pulling down your sweater, who knew life would come to this?...

Cathedrals, mosques, mosaics, stained glass           windows, stones, ruins, paintings,           statues, blend and blur, or disappear. Was I ever here? There? Did I ride a camel           before the Great Pyramid of Giza? Did...

Across the lake, birch leaves crown the red pines— bright gold. The lake— an old mirror shattered by wind— holds them upside down, wavering in its broken surface. Days like this— we don’t notice, we even forget, already turning...

Like hammered silver, the lake shimmers. Clouds—white handkerchiefs thrown across a blue sky. Leaves and needles twirl in the air— a careless dance to mosaic the lake. Pine trees on the far shore fade into moss green while...

You’re reading a good book when the dog barks. You startle— a jolt of adrenaline, then gone. She darts to the window, back and forth, head high, A low growl. A half bark. A yawn. She grabs a ragged toy. You find your place. She...

Pain is the universal language spoken across time and space without accent or regional distinction. Socrates would recognize mine instantly and reply with equal understanding. A Polar Bear would catch my visible conditions, and...

Vast lawns sprawl before them, thick and juicy after summer rains, but a dozen white, feathered diners have chosen a five-yard square to display their gluttonous intentions. Their choice is lost in avian mystery – how they flap...

There I was at 21, an adult who didn’t know how to be one. Then a bride, thrilled, of course, but ignorant of protocol. I became a mother baffled by a howling foreign species, Then yet another transition from student to...