Tiny faces peek out from the ledge of stone walls dusty from disuse, empty doorways and metal edges over places where windows used to fit. Once we belonged here, but we lost the pages; still a plaque grows cold against spring’s gasp, shrouded taut amongst the weeds, until the winds blow limbs apart, reveal lostContinue reading “Poem: Multiperspectivity”
Tag Archives: Poetry
Poem: Love Sprouts
Fog concealed the ghosts riding through our damp fields, forging their haunts in valleys still tingling with frosty breath and grassy hair. They ask questions I can’t answer about men who start wars and women who pick up the pieces and swear history won’t repeat. Are we driven to chisel our bricked hearts, our doubtsContinue reading “Poem: Love Sprouts”
Little Bits of Celebration
Here’s the literary magazine I refer to in the video: Flora Fiction. Check them out and give my poems a little love when the spring issue comes out. 🙂 Also, since recording this video earlier today, I received the news from my husband that our middle child is recovering from his surgery and doing well!Continue reading “Little Bits of Celebration”
Poem: Heart’s Shiver
Rolling farmland conceals cars in its dipping valleys. Corn stalks sway and tremble in dance before they flutter away like long-limbed birds over fields, peppering grassy bluffs with their stories. Telling my own story, I stutter and stumble back into my mind, heedless of my lesson. Rough edges of the highway caress the greying river.Continue reading “Poem: Heart’s Shiver”
Poem: Three Birdhouses
What the sellers left behind: three handmade wooden birdhouses, a flat, painted stone, the grime of an upended bucket, wild bushes, a leering gnome and a wind chime. What winter left behind: the crisp-crunch of tawny leaves and damp of thawing soil in spaces within sunlight’s reach, under shade’s spring recoil.
Poem: Mauve Sky
Sun melts on mauve sky beyond its haze, winter storm motions cloud’s advance
Poem: Evergreen Growth
Prickly pine fingers tingling with grey snow shedding winter’s cling whispering knowledge to spring’s fresh buddings forming new life whole
Poem: Wanderer
Drive through northern desserts Blend farmland in feelings Head home by heading wayward Broken, longing for new meaning.
Poem: Almost Ocean
Pebbled Great Lake beach creamy clouds touch rippled waves dreams of motherland
Poem: Midwinter Clouds
sifting cerulean whispers written in the sky cotton candy wisps
