Journal
With heartfelt thanks to Blurb Books
It isn’t even November and here I am overflowing with gratitude: today, it’s thanks to Blurb for featuring the book form of a project my daughter and I worked on a few years ago. Sometimes, we still work on it; in fact, having this…
Poetry
Making Inktober into Poemtober
Poetry
One of five: Pictures
Once upon a time in Rome
while gazing at Bernini
I snapped a photo meant for home,
with tourist senses reeling.
The moment froze for me in time
as sweet as a gelato
“take nothing but the light you find”
has always been my motto
This…
Poetry
Scrittura Saturday Poetry Prompt: Medical Musings
The day his brain short circuited
she found him, body
in a state of unresponsive repose
denying stimuli
denying help
it took a team to bring him back
wires, tubes, masks, machines
weeks and weeks of work
on the body, retraining limbs
while his mind wandered
defying the carefully placed apparatus
denying the cataclysm
everything a…
Poetry | Prose Poem
Scrittura Wednesday Prose Poem Prompt
My mother bears a mark, a pantyhose line, an exhausted by the squeeze of formal life bumpy reminder of the day she met me face to face. Her body still carries me, there, on her belly, in the reality of everyday glances in the mirror. My daughter left her own…
Poetry
Mary Oliver references William Carlos Williams
Poetry
A Postmodern Love Poem, via a Prompt
If
I knew
what you were
I would send you
so many letters
Pen
in hand
each new phrase
I consider
I think of Marat
In
his bath
was he just
a product of
the system he loathed?
Soaked
relieved
wallowing
saturated
in bloody progress…
