Slowly, slowly I wash our last dishes allow the too-warm water to redden my hands to just the right amount of pain so I will remember that this is what it took to release the hardened remnants from the places I used to feed on you.
Archive for the ‘Natural World’ Category
At the Kitchen Window, New Year’s Eve
Posted in Birds, Death/Loss/Grief, New Year's, Renewal/rebirth on December 31, 2016 | 1 Comment »
Water Falls (Waterfalls)
Posted in Beauty, Love, Waterfall on July 25, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
I look up without seeing the source. Cold spray moistens cheeks already moistened by tears. Beauty crashes down with a rumble and roar into pools of sorrow. My body reverberates as love crashes down, the confluence of creek and river, you and me, forged in the roar of the falls.
Summer’s Release
Posted in Friendship, Poetry, Seasons on June 20, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
On the eve of a summer solstice the superior court judge heeded the death knell that silenced and shrouded our home and signed our decree
In the Black of Winter
Posted in Daughters, Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Menopause, Motherhood, Renewal/rebirth, Seasons on December 25, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
I In the black of the morning brake lights and street lights strung together like a garland blurred by the arcs of rainwater dragged back and forth across the windshield.
Coffee Shop
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Poetry, Rain on December 6, 2015 | 2 Comments »
In the coffee shop where we once nestled I sit by the window cold air seeping through. Hard gray rain coming down in diagonals bouncing off the gray sidewalk repelling off the windshields and hoods of gray cars parked outside the café. The pounding kind of rain that even we poets, rain-lovers and darkness-dwellers that […]