She almost made it out into the day light again after years – years – without. Fingers pressed against the pane of glass, behind a blackout curtain. Sometimes in front of it, when she was feeling brave. She thought it was safe, up so high, the starlight on fingertips, no one would see. But I…
Category: Poems
The Tyranny of Evidence
I sat down to write a blog about my last two weekends – one camping, one at the beach. Instead: "My true love hath my heart and I have his?"It hooks me on that one close word, that true –What, true because in saying so it is?For truth too oft repeated sounds less true. The ring…
I Won
My little sonnet won a prize. I get a free book of poetry. Yay. Can’t wait til the week is over. Can’t. Wait. Must. Make. It. To. Saturday.
Sonnet
I wrote this today for a sonnet competition. It was fun. In dull and muffled light the quiet two Digest the morning cereal and news He, cradling a cup of morning brew She, in his lap and hungry, gently mews Her paw outstretched, her tail a lazy curl With absent mind her reach he tucks away Beneath his flannel…
Warm up already
In honor of this May, which is dragging its feet into summertime, when temperatures dip into the 50s, and we are all just READY for June. SEASONS Oh the wily wintertime with its cold and narrow scope the gnarly fingered grasp, the scritchy scratch of layered winter wear the steam of soups and coffees, the…