Promise
Can you sense the promise while enduring a time of hardship? I am currently enveloped in a stress-laden, iron-gray cloud of challenges as vowed caretaker of my beloved partner with his advancing Parkinson’s, as primary breadwinner while most of my…
Daughter Song
When you were born my wish came true And you transformed my precious world, For though the boys brought treasure new You became my favorite girl. There’s something mythic in your eyes, In hair so straight it shuns a curl;…
Dancing
Dancing gives you wings to an aerie place From whence you get a god’s-eye space. Up there, you soar above your strife And tears, your memories of past life. There is only this now, and you twirl. You comb the…
Hug These Days
In this unprecedented (in our lifetime) pandemic-driven retreat into home sheltering, moments of reflection come and invite me in. It’s like a dollop of opportunity for life review, but hardly a linear process. It’s more like smatterings and brief meaningful…
Constellation
The stars are moving at fantastic speeds. Their motion is invisible, my span of life inadequate To clock or plot the change. The ancient ones left charts behind to show the nighttime cosmic coals From which they named the shapes…
Goddess Cowgirl (for Kathy)
goddess cowgirl (to kathy) so here you are: stetson angels, yoga and a country band will hover in the corner with your dreams be they pearly small or boulder grand. not for blossoming alone do gardens stand. with your ancestress…
“Tra la, it’s May, the lusty month of May…”
Here it is, May Day 2020, and the lilting song from the musical Camelot comes to mind. But tra-la lusty is hardly what I’m feeling during pandemic-driven social distance. Thankfully, phone and visual media have arrived like reinforcements to save…
