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Green Angels: September, 2024 Featured Poem
September 28, 2024
They come more often in autumn. No doubt they are inspired by nearby apple and pear trees heavy with fruit. However, like the fog, we never know when they will come and go. I read that some kinds of urban parrots have populations larger than the remaining, dwindling numbers of birds in their ancestral jungle … More Green Angels: September, 2024 Featured Poem
I Can’t Get Back To Sleep Wondering… August, 2024 Featured Poem
August 30, 2024
For me, and I suspect many of you, July and August have been full of images and drama about the Presidential race. I can’t make it through a whole convention anymore. I want to get to bed on time. However… I Can’t Get Back To Sleep At Night Wondering… if Ivanka and Melania ever showed … More I Can’t Get Back To Sleep Wondering… August, 2024 Featured Poem
City Park Devotions: July, 2024 Featured Poem
July 30, 2024
Recovering from my first documented case of COVID-19, I have been spending even more time than usual gazing out my window at the park across the street. The vista of trees, sky, hawks, ravens, people, and dogs constantly changes. I hope you all stay as safe as you can in this new surge. City Park … More City Park Devotions: July, 2024 Featured Poem
Abracadabra: June, 2024 Featured Poem
June 18, 2024
I love palimpsests where old writings can be made to appear. Thrilled by a newly discovered painting by Rembrandt or a lost page from one of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. Abracadabra – “AI helps decipher the text of a 2,000-year-old scroll burned at Pompeii.” – Scientific American, 2024 The first word to appear from the … More Abracadabra: June, 2024 Featured Poem
Caprice: May, 2024 Featured Poem
May 27, 2024
It is really Spring, warming up to Summer. I hope my poem will bring you a smile. We need smiles. Check my events page for a poetry reading I am party of that is taking place on June 9, 2024 at the Tunnel Top Park near Dog Patch in San Francisco. ( not the Presidio … More Caprice: May, 2024 Featured Poem
Poetry Reading- June 9, 2024
May 27, 2024
A Poetic Sunday Outing! Please Join Us. Note accurate date!
Pacific Chorus Frogs: April, 2024 Featured Poem
April 27, 2024
Earlier this Spring I was on a writing retreat with a friend in the East Bay Hills above Danville. The frogs were so loud they reminded me of peeper frogs in Massachusetts and Upstate New York. We were just back Upstate to visit friends who live in the solar eclipse path of totality. The frogs … More Pacific Chorus Frogs: April, 2024 Featured Poem
Cans of Baked Beans: March, 2024 Featured Poem
April 12, 2024
I have hope that sanity and good luck will continue to hold so we do not have to go back to preparations. … More Cans of Baked Beans: March, 2024 Featured Poem
Blue: February, 2024 Featured Poem
March 12, 2024
It has been so rainy and overcast everywhere and especially close to the Pacific. One day this happened! Spring is starting in San Francisco. Blue West, over the oceanthe mackerel sky is ribbedlike a knitted shawl.Sun flames white cloudsinto glowing alabaster. Drifting east, the rows puffand spread like fingersletting the blueness of skypour through. My … More Blue: February, 2024 Featured Poem
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