These days,
(the autumn of my 52nd year),
what hurts is not the sorrow, Continue reading “The Sorrow Is Not What Hurts”
Category: Poems
Living in the Question
They say we are living in a “post-truth” world.
This, of course,
is not true.
Rather, what has been true
is no longer honest.
Continue reading “Living in the Question”
Song of Myself
Leave the chair at your computer.
Find your way outside
and sit in the wind.
Continue reading “Song of Myself”
Achilles 45
Does anyone know how to find that spot
way down by his heel
where the binding holds him up
in defense against
his own limitations? Continue reading “Achilles 45”
I am a woman with a voice . . . (listen).
This spoken word is about discovery, about men and women, our present and our future. It’s an invitation to men to man-up with love, and to women to risk being more of who we really are. It’s about me and you. It’s about the power we all have, no matter what we have faced, to take a stand in love. (It’s also about the fruits that can get harvested as a 50 year old woman!)
Unwelcome Guests
It was hard to see the kind of entitled guests we’d become, but eventually, a hostess needs to decide what to do with such people.
Continue reading “Unwelcome Guests”