I’ve been waiting for anger to subside or at least squidgy a little to the left or, if not that, slide a bit lower or melt, maybe, from my furrowed brow and clenched jaw or warm the nippy fluids buffering my heart by just half a degree or soften just the tiniest bit the hardened […]
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Making Way for the Poem
Posted in Anger, Poetry, Protest, Women, Writing on January 14, 2018 | 1 Comment »
Genealogy of a Ghost
Posted in Bible Story, Legends and Mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Writing on August 27, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Desert Bloom
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Falling in Love, Fear, Natural World, Romance, Writing on May 4, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Inches apart the right side of your right arm rubbed my left.
Transliteration
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Fantasies, Fathers, Lust, Meditation, Prayer, Religion, Writing on February 18, 2015 | 1 Comment »
When a Jewish parent dies, the surviving adult child is obligated to recite the Kaddish, the Mourner’s Prayer that never mentions death, twice a day for 11 months. Prayer books print three versions: the Hebrew, the transliteration of the Hebrew, and a translation into the reader’s primary language, such as English or Spanish. Yitgadal […]
Ink Stains / Ink is my Ink
Posted in Isolation/Belonging, Lions, Writing on December 23, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
I swore I’d never take off the very first ring from a boy I loved. When I did, it revealed the tell-tale band of oxidized green. The mark left by imitation precious metal lasted longer than the mark made by love’s early imitation.