Poetry

  • 1991, Based on a true story. My employer, experiencing an unanticipated economic crisis,offered me this option, lose my job ortake on two. Newly back from childbirthleave, of course I chose the latter, and sothere I was, babe in hand, steering a smallrental van, on the way to a trade show inChicago, where I’d be singly setting Read more

  • … imagining there’s no heaven After you’re done with some of the paperwork,the powers of attorney, the DNR, the will,and you’ve begun, if not finished, the other stuff;whittled down the belongings, purchased a burial plot,  maybe started your own obituary, along with some directionson what to do with the body – cremate it, put it Read more

  • there are times I cannot seem to stop myself from messing with what isn’t being said, so then I  have to say out loud another truth Read more

  • back then, in Spring as if newly budding leavessprouted from my branches; in Summer, happilybreezing and whispering about; then in Fallwearing unmuted colors to surprise the eyes.These days, when after my nap I awaken,fading hair frazzled and unruly, lookingmore like a Buckeye in Winter,hairless limps unwilfully gone wild,creaking against the ill winds,more often I’m mistakenfor Read more

  • Long Distance

    After three days I became worried, worried that my phone was not out of order, that I’d left it plugged in. I worried that something tragic thing hadn’t happened to  a member of your family, that you weren’t lying dead next to your phone I worried that your memory was fine, that you weren’t lost Read more

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  • stating that the views I shared don’t coincide with theirs, Read more

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  • Someday, will I be lying on my deathbed, sorry for all this time I’ve wasted writing about doing nothing? Read more

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