Power and Insecurity…for Grace

Power and Insecurity…for Grace

by | Jun 2, 2018 | Poetry

In 2011, to celebrate my last day of being 33, I posted an open letter to Grace. This post came two years after the vision of her eyes rocked me. It was two years before I met my husband and six years before she was born. Now she is here, and I wonder if I told the...
Life Lessons from Pancakes

Life Lessons from Pancakes

by | May 26, 2018 | Poetry

The sticky, messy, richness of it all The work of the making The cleanup The leaving Taste it all All The wrongest place found beautiful The atonal journey to peace The cherished The regret Taste it all All...
What you Paid For

What you Paid For

by | Apr 7, 2018 | Poetry

From April, 2017, with love, The hardest part is patience. The hardest part is trust. But there is a twinkling, like a drop light in the dew of a new day. I’m making a stand here. I will wait. I will trust. And I will play my part as only I can. Sometimes there...
Sometimes the Stars

Sometimes the Stars

by | Mar 17, 2018 | Poetry

Sometimes the stars sing songs in the night, and the rocks dance out for the sea. Sometimes the wind brings that song straight to me, with a groan or a sigh, the melody wafts by  and I dance to the tune of the air. Sometimes the night is a blessed mirage from the day,...
Don’t be Afraid of the Smoke

Don’t be Afraid of the Smoke

by | Feb 10, 2018 | Poetry

The music was an incense And she cried out Don’t be afraid of the friction She spoke of the embers The implicated doubt Don’t be afraid of the smoke Where there’s smoke there’s fire And she cried out Don’t be afraid of the friction She...