Alligator Pears
Time for a summer rerun! Enjoy! In a land where the river was filling with salt, and the water was creeping into the garden patch, the iguanas climbed high and [...]
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Aug, 2025
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Jul, 2025
Crazy Days/Crazy Nights
Greetings, dear readers and friends! I hope you are all enjoying a bit of summer fun-- swimming, hiking, travel, plus homegrown tomatoes on your sandwiches, strawberries on your breakfast cereal, [...]
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Jul, 2025
River Book
This poem was created from a favorite prompt from Two Sylvia's Press, where you imagine a famous person, living or dead, comes to your door and gives you a gift. [...]
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Jul, 2025
Pack Animal
Years ago he faithfully wore a tiny Star Spangled Banner—an American flag pin—on the lapel of his suit jacket. It gave him a certain caché, marked him as being a [...]
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Jul, 2025
Happy 4th of July!
It's the 4th of July, and I'm guessing my readers realize this is a big old patriotic holiday here in the United States. However, it's come to my attention recently [...]
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Jun, 2025
Mantilla Poppy
Mantilija Poppydisguises herselfas a fried eggsunny side upwith broad white petalscircling a yolky yellow center.You are the very essence of spring, Mantilija.Assertive, persistentyou spread your tendrilsindiscriminatelythrough every unoccupiedinch of dirtin [...]
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Jun, 2025
Solstice
In celebration of the solstice, I'm reviving a piece I wrote several years ago after a morning volunteering at a hospitality center that serves breakfast to low-income and homeless women [...]
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Jun, 2025
Five Ways to Spot a Narcissist–PLUS Five Ways to Create Clear Boundaries
Written with this prompt: work in the names of magazines PLUS use the name of a magazine article as your title. I put 15 magazines in this piece. Can you [...]
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Jun, 2025
In My Dreams
I wasn't sure where this was going, then I decided to take it over the top (literally) because why not??!! Written with my Thursday night writing group with the prompts: [...]
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May, 2025
The Mysteries of Jesus the Migrant
Back when he was still just “Father Bob,” our new Pope Leo shared a post on Twitter that attracted a bit of attention right after he was elected. He did [...]