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This tapestry of life finally, at age 75, has frayed at the edges The trail of thread too embossed in the center to unravel. Patterns of irony, travesty, triumph, and disappointment woven too tight to tear. Love, commitment, the...

After William Blake Harbinger of dread your withered head droops over my vase. Grown from a garden of love, you abide now in the chapel of death. Zoroaster, my cat, nibbles your wrinkled petals. How your brief experience...

The question has always been, what to do      with the moon, bewitching in its many profiles, ever changing, beautiful. What do we      humans do with it? We find a bed, lie down, and shut it off. That’s what we do with the pale...

The broom in the corner hints at possibilities…yet mist is lifting on the hill as wisps of clouds slowly unmask the sun. Wrens chatter in the woods as my dog patiently gazes out the screen door. The hillside beckons, the cool...

Flat, jagged-edged rocks, piled just so, turned the creek into a pond. Crawfish lurked under water-worn stones landlocked lobsters, pincers big enough to nab little fingers if you weren’t careful. Lift a stone off the bottom,...

Sometimes when snowflakes brush my face, or when sunlight tickles my feet as I cross the floor, I’m reminded to wallow and ignore my best-laid plans, my endless list of goals. After all, somewhere snowflakes always fall,...