I married the man from an unbroken line of cattle rustlers and outlaws misogynists and God-fearers hard drinkers and card players good-ole boys and long-suffering wives descendants of those with skin white enough to hold slaves own vast farmland distill spirits to make it through North Dakota winters and high plains droughts.
Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
Genealogy of a Ghost
Posted in Bible Story, Legends and Mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Writing on August 27, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Unwitting Witness
Posted in Birds, Death/Loss/Grief, Ducks, Mortality, Poetry on March 19, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
You’ll say I’m anthropomorphizing reading too much into things projecting making something out of nothing making it about me.
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
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 […]