Everything
Unripe berriescluster on the vine.One is dark, but not dark enough,a pinot, not a cab.The others look creamywhite turning pale yellowa few tinged pink like a peace rose, my favorite:they [...]
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Jun, 2026
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May, 2026
Break My Heart
Break My HeartWritten with the prompts: beware, you are bound for a heartache, break my heart buttercup, clutter, dancing fingers stole that away, extra spice, find one you do like, [...]
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Apr, 2026
Rivers, inspired by Georgia O’Keefe’s Chama River, Ghost Ranch 1937
Because April is National Poetry Month, I’ve decided to share with you some ekphrastic poems I’ve written this past year. Ekphrastic poems are written about works of art, most often [...]
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Apr, 2026
The Fairy Path
I wrote this poem nearly forty years ago, give or take a decade. But it’s April, National Poetry Month, and I thought I’d drag out a few old favorites of [...]
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Apr, 2026
The Bear, a sestina
April is National Poetry Month, so I’ll be posting a few poems this season. Currently I spend more time writing prose stories instead of poems, so it’s been fun for [...]
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Feb, 2026
Matryoshka
Today's offering is the tiniest of flash fiction, written in poem form.The river is lapping on my porch. Red fish and blue fish leap toward the doorbellseeking sanctuary.My cat smacks [...]
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Jan, 2026
Animals in Winter: as large as fog, as warm as bread
Polar Bears, fragrant and prickly,crouch in the coldlistening for the echoof flute notes in crystal caves.Fiercely, fiercely bread bakesdefying the bitter stingof tule fog.Follow the riversfollow their floating trails of [...]
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Jan, 2026
New Year
The new year feels like a mistake waiting to happen, a haircut with bangs that are too short, the wrong lipstick, a red that’s too blue, when it should be [...]
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Dec, 2025
Shepherd’s Story
A winter's poem I wrote a few decades ago. . . In Decemberthe sky darkened but a star cracked the blacknessto perch like a red bird on the waiting finger [...]
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Dec, 2025
Don’t Eat the Moon
This poem continues my theme of December oranges, but also serves as a holiday warning: don't let this season try your patience and drive you to exhaustion! Remember, the smartest [...]