The Children You Can Raise Differently Even if all the others are doing something, you can be differentMaybe other people don’t want to follow and you can still... Poetry 28 Sep 2026 | 12:09
Dancing in the Garden Off in a swampA bullfrog hurrumpedSetting the tempoFor our tune.While high in the treesCicadas wheezeA nighttime melodious... Poetry 02 Apr 2026 | 01:25
Communion On my grandfather’s farm there stood a treeThat bore four sorts of apples – green, red, red,Yellow – round like hearts. It... Poetry 16 Dec 2025 | 03:05
Beauty It tricklesas sunlight tricklesfrom leaf to leaf, drippingthrough a forest’sdark canopy, poolingnear a mossthat warms the soft... Poetry 15 Oct 2025 | 12:00
Candle Maker He says, “I’ve never been 80 before.”The now sedimentary burn tableGreets and shares its redolent singularityThe first wax... Poetry 25 Aug 2025 | 03:14
Evergreen Bury me beneath a tree.Lay me down on a deep bedwith earth as my comforter. I will snuggle in the downy myceliumweaving its... Poetry 14 Feb 2025 | 02:12
For an ambassador of culture, an acrostic* thank you Reaching for the stars has always been your true occupation:oh that we could emulate your will,become half the poet that... Poetry 16 Jan 2025 | 01:05
I could not be Joan How were we so lucky to meetAlways looking out for everyoneOut of the oven, fresh baked muffinsAlways a cup of tea or coffee... Poetry 25 Jul 2024 | 11:46
Missing May The sun is slowly risingMy coffee is very warmMillions of sparkling dropletsFrom last night’s passing storm There’s chickadees... Poetry 04 Mar 2024 | 01:39
Uncle Jackie My aunt would say“run this down to Jackie”on a Sunday afternoonSpuds, carrotsand a slice of roast Me, a boy of ten Two doors... Poetry 02 Nov 2023 | 02:35
1960 Remember our trip to Biscayne Bay?Needle fish swimming byYou said you’d never go away... How the time does fly.I have grandchildren... Poetry 26 Sep 2023 | 11:57
I RISE I seek, I grow, I risefrom deep ancestral rootspulsating through the veins of timecomposted in truths. from deep ancestral... Poetry 31 Aug 2023 | 10:14
old-growth cathedral branches, absorbing each others’ silence like moss absorbs rain.then suddenly the forest trembles with the weight... Poetry 03 Apr 2023 | 10:49
Cemetery Wall The freestanding wall borders the path,separating one family’s gravesites from another. Nature puts it to its own uses.Openings... Poetry 09 Jan 2023 | 03:29
Dadirri .I.raking summer’s tears,I brush away woodland warmth.maple leaves burn crisp. .II.chunky cable knits.slouchy smiles all wear... Poetry 30 Jun 2022 | 11:32
