‘Mind your time,’ my dad phones to warn me an hour before we leave for the airport. ‘Bloody right-wing rioters – there’s diversions everywhere. Maybe
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Every thought of you makes me want to dig deep into the poetry that saved me I pull Kenneth Koch, Frank O’Hara, and John Ashbury
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on the second glance. No, not the first. That’s for fairy tales.
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The ceiling fan blows a chill across me, so I turn to my right and throw my arm over my sleeping husband, Will, to snuggle
Read MoreI was nineteen years old when I fell in love with my husband. That was thirty-one years ago, and the sensations of love at first
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i change into the most beautiful monster, whenever i’m with you. lest i lose your love, i spread colorful wings and hide ugly fangs. i
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i saw you on tv no, yeah i did i did, i swear, and your eyes were green and brown and amber and gold and
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we leave on our Christmas tree lights and outdoor strings as well hung in a swinging rhythm along the porch railing blinking colors write notes
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If I had a dollar for every pill, I’d still be medication poor. What does not kill me, makes me stranger, dizzy as fizzy water.
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I spent the night with Marilyn Monroe on Christmas. Since I was in labor, I didn’t enjoy it much. The house held a panoply of
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My father was in a Florida hospital drugged up to mask the pain of the cancer that marched through him like Sherman through Atlanta during
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It sits on my bed stand, water emptying eternal as the hands baring the cup which fills & refills the bowl made by loving. Inside
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