Property of
February 26, 2014
Feminist, womanist woman
pulls on her leather cut
Property of–A sign of respect
Fear
February 24, 2014
Like freeze-tag
I am a frozen statue
in an awkward pose
Brother Lawrence
February 20, 2014
Brother, will you share a pot?
Let me stand in your kitchen and stir beside you
Learn the sacredness of the mundane.
I Don’t Wait Well
February 18, 2014
I don’t wait well
I mutter in the car
smoke another cigarette, flip the filter
Provence Blue
February 18, 2014
The sky is the Mediterranean
the tablecloth my son brought me from du Var
the fabric I purchased which matches your eyes
February Sun
February 15, 2014
Rare intense February sun
melts hearts, snow, bones.
Chickadee, Nuthatch, Wren
February 12, 2014
Incisor beaks race for the seed
war and climb the feeder
hang upside down
Iris in the Ice
February 12, 2014
Hardy green stalk
Insistent on the light
Pushes through the snow, covered in ice
Scrabble with my Parents
February 12, 2014
86 year old minds may beat me
they’ve lived well
Scrabble proves it.
Bliss
February 5, 2014
I don’t believe in bliss, Joseph
I believe in life
Follow your life, Joseph
Get out of the way