Peace has leftthe green housewith Iris by the doorCast out by the Walking Witchwhose heart is charcoal blackWarts and the summer moonbear witness to her dance outsidethe garden gate”Manifest!”, she cries casting her spellMoonlight jumping on extended armsas they stir her cauldron skyCurse without cause can not fly-Fly it does from her fingers endlike sparksContinueContinue reading “Poetry: Moon Spell”
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Poetry: Graduation
Student:The average person gets 432 haircuts in their lifetimeFor you I wonder- too many, or not enough?Regardless, you will not like most of themEvery seven years your skin is completely renewedFrom scalp to toesA new birthday suit is knittedYou will use at least 150 toothbrushesfrom baby teeth or wisdoms,and swallow just as many spidersor so the legend goes…AllContinueContinue reading “Poetry: Graduation”
This Side of Paradise
Times change, they always do, it is no surprise- but are you ready for it this time? Since I was 15 I have always been able to find employment. Between 1990 and 1993, however, thanks to a working husband, I was able to stay home and raised my kids. In 1993, when I was looking to returnContinueContinue reading “This Side of Paradise”
9/11 Morning
This summer a short two pager that I wrote will be in a book about Washington State ferries. The story is about what it was like to be on a ferry the morning of 9/11. Here is a little taste:”New flames were emanating out from the south tower. We looked and waited for the personContinueContinue reading “9/11 Morning”
Poetry: Perhaps
It’s Monday and a great day for art and poetry! Every Monday night is Poetry Night open mic in downtown Bellingham. Last week Robert gave out a prompt that I couldn’t resist: What should be done with your body upon your death. All week I’ve been thinking about this. What writer doesn’t enjoy writing orContinueContinue reading “Poetry: Perhaps”
Poetry: Gray Braided Gardener
Seeds of joyToss from her fingertipsGreen LIFE yawns awakeon the shady side of NoblesAlways in spring she isRadiating beams of new LIFEKneading it into the earthEverywhere she goesLIFE follows heror does she create it?A goddess tramping through the desertleaving behind her a forest~Dedicated to my special friend Susan who always leaves a forest wherever sheContinueContinue reading “Poetry: Gray Braided Gardener”
Poetry: Universal Love
The 2012 “Phrasings in Word + Dance” is on! Bellingham Repertory Dance presented its sixth annual collaboration with Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater this weekend. What a great three days of art and insight. Carla and the BRD company have outdone themselves, again. This year I was selected, along with 5 other poets, to write a poemContinueContinue reading “Poetry: Universal Love”
Road Fury
1978 Chrysler Fury Magazine CommercialA few days ago I received a text from my daughter: “I drove myself home!” My daughter just recently earned her drivers license and drove herself home from college for the first time. She sounded so happy! For various reasons she didn’t get her license until her second year of college.ContinueContinue reading “Road Fury”
PAD: SOIL
Wow- the last day of Writers Digest Poem A Day challenge. It was a challenge for me to pump out 30 poems in a month. As an article and short story writer I was distracted by the length and quality of the poems I created. The inner critic never sleeps… Then I remembered that someContinueContinue reading “PAD: SOIL”
Poetry: Droplet
All the rain is making me think about this poem from 2010: Sitting with a warm cup sipping down the chamomile looking up in awe at the droplets drop Abstract cutouts of dark trees create the stage so I can view you descending from a silvery cloud What of that one drop? Where were youContinueContinue reading “Poetry: Droplet”
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