this is for you
I have something to share with you. Did you ever listen to the words of the dirty-clean smell on an about to be rainyday? on that day, I open the window because the wind is trying to tell me (it’s…
Made of These
Of tinfoil pinpoint stars In blackest infinight Am I made. Of remotest snow-capped Echoing silence mountain heights In azure sunshine day Am I made. Of coming summer storms And putting the bikes away Am I made. Of winter Am I…
Scuba Gear Coronavirus Fantasy Blues
I looked for a place where coronavirus just couldn’t get to me. Like, I needed a place where coronavirus’d never get to me. So I bought scuba gear and I’m headed for Atlantis in the sea. Well I got me…
Lesson From A Tot
I don’t remember the time or place – grad school class? conference on family therapy? – but the speaker’s words echo on: “Human beings don’t like to say no to an honest need.” The who, where and when have evanesced…
Bless This Home
O Beings of Light and Mystery, thank you for a new home of safety and simplicity. Grant that in this sun-filled space I am daily mindful of your Presence. May I write poems that please you, play songs that honor…
Wackie Pome For When You Fele Blu
0nce in a wile life reelly sucks and a day or pandemick just reelly f—–s but soon as yu nede it our hugs come rite thru with a wackified verse ritten solely 4 yu yu kno that yur hartache is…
Family Alchemy
Philosopher’s stone and elixirs of life Were desired in past Middle Ages. Past middle age, a Chapman-blessed wife, I longed only for wisdom of sages. Evolving through chemistry, wedding and birth A family must contrasts enfold, Embracing new members for…
Somewhere Under the Rainbow
The strange Muse for the poem below was the swirling turmoil in our nation: police brutality, racial and gender injustice, purging Confederate monuments, global climate change, social distancing — all seem to be at a boiling point in the midst…
Summer Solstice 2020
the world entire is a midsummer and you will be there spritelike, chasing the firefly lanterns. they beckon you here, and there; there are few obstacles to your inner grace. you freely overlook the outer stones and inner hedges. yet…
River stones
Riverstones Behold the beauty of river stones, These elements smooth as eggs. Just so does friendship mold our souls, Edges slowly rounded in the wash of time. Small separate words, events, places, hugs Make up the stream, but behold! The…
