Do you love me? she asks while she washes dishes.There is soap in her bangs, the sponge is fraying, the water splashes my fingersas...

for Sara the wind blows off the ocean making waves disappear to who knows where palm trees are galloping horsesthat have no say which way they are...

A Woman Turns Fifty with Cherry Blossoms A cold spring, too cold, blossoms a fizz of pink only a smattering against the gray sky. How much of...

Woman In A Field I want to paint your sky blue skirt spotted with hundreds of white islands, ocean on land before a primrosed field,...

Reflections of the Delta An old Cadillac floats past the snow-white fields,Its old dents have traveled here before,Soft blue-sky surrounds the car, enveloping the ground,The...

The Exodus of Icarus Standing in the candlelightWatching the flames flicker up, and down,Watching your eyes turn golden and fill with determination.You say you’ll carry...

Memories I’ll never forget the kitchen with the drooling wafts of bashful morning sun dribbling through the yawning window.I’ll never forget the kitchen with the...

Marvelous Creeper It seeps,it creeps.Emerging, crawling,a marring of sky.Amber deepens to pumpkin,the distortion less unsettling.Soon, a blood orange supplants everything.We sit here, marveling. Not waiting,not...

Trees Know Bare branches of winter treessway in wind, like animalsbobbing their heads,listening to music of breezes,telling stories to their neighbors. Trees know who tilled the...

DARK SURGE This broad valley between tworidges holds greeneven when snow crusts crestswhere rocks breakopen — What dark surgeshakes loose eaglesfrom their nests, underminesfoundation-stones,drains seas?...