Stars are totally beyond our control. What I do or do not do with stars I don’t have to feel responsible or guilty. Politics, climate, 42 million people not getting SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), wars, my latest aches and pains – just not of interest to stars. The accompanying photo of mine is not … More Stars In Our Eyes: October, 2025 Featured Poem
It is almost October and I start looking for our annual bats. This is a little early for Halloween but I thought you might enjoy this poem. In other news, I am working on my fourth poetry book! Hope to have it out in 2026. The working title is Cadence, or possibly Crosswinds or Lexicon … More Dreams of Bats: September, 2025 Featured Poem
These amazed me when we first moved out to the west. I find them beautiful and a bit humorous. Almost gone from my neighbor’s yard as the weather becomes Autumn in earnest, but August is their moment and all eyes are on them. Naked Ladies A burlesque of pink lilies, stand erect,stems leaf-less, unashamed, rebellious,like … More Naked Ladies: August, 2025 Featured Poem
I just came back from a Back East vacation and I found a cicada shell! Yes some poems were written. This one is from last month. In case you didn’t know, I didn’t till I rejoined, the YMCA is officially rebranded “The Y” as of 2010. They started in 1844 as the Young Men’s Christian … More In My Seventies I Start Pumping Iron At the Y: July, 2025 Featured Poem
I continue to be amused and amazed by the fog here in the Sunset District of San Francisco. It is so unlike anything I grew up with in New England forests and farms far from the ocean. It now summer and prime fog time. We watch tourists lulled by brief Thhours of sun suddenly shivering … More Mist and Silver: June, 2025 Featured Poem
This is an old poem of mine, 2022, from before my recent book was published. A couple teachers/editors have seemed to consider it too sentimental or were concerned by the unabashed anthropomorphism which is frequently thought to be tacky or at least uncool. Yet, I love it and this is my blog and I get … More A Gladness: April, 2025 Featured Poem
I Have An Anonymous Admirer Three book-mailing envelopes in a canvas baglay on the floor of my parked car.I was watching post-storm breakersthree miles away. The thief slipped a knife under edgingof the tiny, fixed window in my Toyota.Didn’t break it, only pried away the molding,easily slipping an arm in to open the door. Near … More I Have An Anonymous Admirer: March, 2025 Featured Poem
We are about to have another atmosphere river, maybe the last of the season. Join me in loving our moments of sun! Dazzled In The Coffee Shop January sun forces itself past rain cloudsand into the coffee house windowat just the right angle to light up my face.Red and yellow rays fill my closed eyes.Caress … More Dazzled In The Coffee Shop: February, 2025 Belated Featured Poem
Happy Holidays! I am thankful for much today, including that the two young women in my household are recovering fast from COVID. I have been thinking about the bonds between women and children. I hope you enjoy this sketch from my recent visit to the exhibition. For those of you in the Bay Area, see … More Dry-Point –November, 2024 Featured Poem
Dear Friends, I am posting this in the nature of a prayer. It is from my book All in Measure: A Book of Hours 2020-2022. This is a link to Amanda Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb, If Only We Dare It.” Better yet, watch her read it again for hope! Inauguration – January, 20, … More Inauguration – January, 20, 2021: October 30, 2024 Featured Poem
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