Juicy
Every year on Pearl Harbor Day, I like to tell the story of my late mother, who was picking oranges with her best friend Louise on December 7th, 1941, when [...]
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Dec, 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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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
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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Apr, 2025
Delta Breeze
To conclude National Poetry Month, I feel blessed to share with you this poem. I wrote it many years ago, a love letter to my home town, and I was [...]
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Apr, 2025
Easter Broom
Another poem for National Poetry Month The fabric of night unwinds like a bolt of dark blue velvet across a clean white sheet of daylight. At Equinox the corners of [...]
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Apr, 2025
Harvest
It's April, and that means National Poetry Month! Here is a poem I wrote many years ago, when I was a young Feminist, invoking the Moon Goddess to guide women [...]
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Feb, 2025
Love is an Avocado
A special poem for Valentine's Day! Love is an avocadoshaped like the human heart,and the human heartis a pumpthat sends the blood reelingin ways gravity alonecannot do.But the human heart [...]
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Jan, 2025
Happy St. Brigid’s Feast Day!
Fifty-something years ago in a Catholic school not so far away, the nuns used to read to us from The Lives of the Saints. St. Brigid was always my favorite, [...]