Category Archives: 30 for 30 Poetry Celebration

Where She Belongs     I pace the denuded streets, counting the humans who scurry by, their little skull faces aglow. Mornings are light-struck & female. Afternoons jumbled & loose. I try to remember why I decided to quit drinking. … Continue reading →

Survivors He calls – the boy I used to know, now a man, a reporter, asking me for an interview: how to make meaning out of senseless trauma years later, how to talk calmly about the other boy, his classmate, … Continue reading →

Come Together in a Solidarity Run Enchanted. Hypnotized with demise and astray with decay, the screaming lay bleeding at the grabbing urgency to run in protest of a disturbing uptick in anti-Asian hate. A broken peaceful future. The anger and … Continue reading →

SCHADENFREUDE   For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Elie Wiesel   Seder here, and drear— no cedars and still we must pretend to fend. Our herd— snared like hares— under thunder clouds, torn asunder, like the … Continue reading →

Strategy at the Broken Places               on the life of Sybille von Schoenebeck Bedford     When her Huxley essay casually scripted Nazi Germany as bottomless stupidity she was left severed from wealth, ungrounded. Tangled knots of worry stretched skin … Continue reading →

Enter and Exit Singing             I. Back and forth the golden orb swings. The earth spins. The golden orb does not count, does not age.  Time is nothing to it.               II. What is time? Stasis               III. … Continue reading →

KIDS’ CAMP 2021 Required: Covid-19 negative certificates   Shelters, bathing platforms, walking tracks Despite the promise, and necessary medicines, mistrust hovers Just imagine the hospital staff flipping head over shoulder while all the hopefuls have to stand in line for … Continue reading →

Edge of Freedom (Black Lives Matter)     Will you meet with me at the edge of freedom?  Walk with me to the place where the sunrise meets the horizon?  Stand together? Watch the barriers dissolve? Fast forward to a … Continue reading →

  Overcome Exalting Joy – Laugh at Myself   cockroach in a wastebasket deep shadows cast, all strife and pain – competing against professional obsessives as long as you believe. how clever Mr. Snuggles was as evening (occasionally) lost the … Continue reading →

To preserve formatting, this poem has been saved as a PDF. Please click on the link below to access it. Loving Breonna Author’s Statement: When I write about spring in all its newness and delight, I think of my neighbors … Continue reading →