Author: admin

each poem is intruder alien     irritant is the party-crasher the hanger-on      who can’t take a hint the one who overstays the welcome      it never had is worry at the corner of an eye fret too insistent to skirt the mistake...

the gleam of an egg you crack out of its pale cloister water you see pulled apart into countless beacon-eyed drops dough kneaded by your hands— folded up, over, into itself, stretched toward luminescence the faint opal scars...

An ecological footprint measures how fast a human being consumes resources and generates waste compared to how fast nature can absorb that waste and create new resources. May my eco-footprint shrink           and shrink, yet...

Earth is the world’s noun, naming, naming, saying nothing but in things— proper and common, all at once. Acting up, always doing something, wind is the verb, on the move, unless—of course—it contents itself with simply being. As...

In the early dark of winter nestled deep into my chair lamp light at my shoulder worksheets strewn across my knees My husband’s chair and mine at right angles, huddling together in the calm of our home, relaxed into our...

Aunt Shirley’s pecan pie, luscious soft sweetness, crispy pecans tenderly cradled in crust Parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins sit— gathered onto couch, soft chairs, hard chairs, the floor, or stand wherever scents of...

And this I know And wanted to say to you At some point before I die So hear me out, wife. This is my final testimony: With death calling More times than I can recall or count I saw your face, your image, your spirit Before me...