Category Archives: Poems

Empty Nest

There is an empty nest resting on the snow-covered branches above our bathroom window. A [...]

THE SEPARATE SIDES OF NEED

I Mother, he was meant for mountains, meaning always to go, he stayed more generous [...]

A Winter Bluejay

Crisply the bright snow whispered, Crunching beneath our feet; Behind us as we walked along [...]

Thanksgiving

Ella Wheeler Wilcox – 1850-1919 We walk on starry fields of white And do not [...]

Inside me, a family

Ching-In Chen “To walk in the world is to find oneself in a body without [...]

DEFIANCE

Time bends us till we break defying us to defy gravity a savage kind of [...]

Not Writing

A wasp rises to its papery nest under the eaves where it daubs at the [...]

Augusta Webster, “Circe”.

The sun drops luridly into the west; darkness has raised her arms to draw him [...]

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming [...]

Caged Bird

By Maya Angelou A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats [...]