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seek an attic window bench a hump of grass beneath a tree stone ledge by quiet stream moon with starlight night blue sky breeze of day umbrella storm shelter feel the right time play fiddle flute harmonica guitar whistle hum...

God and Peter Piper Suffered the Lorelei To sing and beckon All us pilgrims– Laugh or suffer Journeys beneath castle towers Cathedral bells and choral hymns Near the hangman’s noose Paths on edge of cliff Swift water...

wings unfurled showing the world perfect symmetry

eye-to-eye with gargoyles I fall in love with Paris

sun hits colored glass my heart explodes

whenever she sees an ampersand she thinks of him

It rained hard and steady all through lunch with a friend. None of the usual ten-minute shower chased by full-out sun. Deep puddles cobblestone the ground. Returning to my car, I must cross a wide wet patch. Reluctant to soak my...

Sun paints the mountains in unending displays of shapes–      And my computer, ever helpful,      just prompted me to add and colors      But, Sweetheart, that’s not      what I wish to say. It’s about shape– depending at what...

Hearing aids, alas, do not serve as listening aids so anything I say to my husband, anything, earns a What? And if I really need an answer I must repeat, repeat, correcting what he thinks he’s heard, most often more than once....

Like a person coping with apnea a sleeping whale must surface to catch its breath. Cetologists find, to accommodate, the whale brain adapted so only one half wakes at a time, while the other half slumbers on, maybe in pursuit of...

A Tribute to the Lost Souls of Ukraine Where do souls go when they have been pulled too abruptly from their lives? Do they bang into each other vying for space and travel to meet with others who have passed suddenly or descend...