What transpired or what we wanted to happen? Dream or lie?
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What difference?
Posted in Aging, Death/Loss/Grief, Memory on June 9, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
His Danaë
Posted in Aging, Art, Legends and Mythology, Painting, Women on July 7, 2023 | 1 Comment »
For Michael Newberry, Freedom to go Anywhere, Figure | Ground Gallery, June 1, 2023, Seattle, WA USA No need for an Oracle to predict the parent dethroned. A collective betrayal: to be outlived, outloved, no matter what we blame on the one who birthed the next generation, even if she bedded a god.
Glinting fractals on the balcony rail
Posted in Aging, Flowers, Lilies on October 9, 2022 | 1 Comment »
I prefer the city at dusk, skies brush-stroked vivid, intensifying as the backdrop goes black, easier to be alone.
Innocent, this need for breath
Posted in Aging, Dreams, Rock formation, Transformation, Women on October 3, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Rousted from buxom dreams, hunched like a tramp, she crept along the thin knife’s edge, then curled, petal-soft, averting pursuit.
Unstitching grief
Posted in Adolescents/Teenagers, Aging, Longing on September 1, 2022 | 4 Comments »
I let down the hem of the wide-legged jeans, ripping the narrow seam thread by thread. Unfolded, the white crease revealed their age. Heat and steam made it more pronounced. I ironed it permanent instead of out, blue marker the last indelible mistake.