Category: Poetry
Another Day
Light rises around the sheltering house Weaves reality from dreams Draws breath from bruised lips Nudges us into the familiar Another day! Anything is possible, if not probable Water boils, coffee Brews, bread Browns, butter Goes bad, milk Sours, paper’s late again Our resolve to continue Mimics the worm’s drive Read more
THE SECRET
“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.” –Robert Frost In Poland, a young woman is having her blood tested for abortion medication. The test comes out positive, and the police escort her to jail. You are not interested in the news. Read more
A Young Woman
At the Georgia O’Keefee museum There was a picture of the artist As a young woman, with an impish grin Mischievous eyes and a wide-open face Full of possibility, unraveling the times Walking through the door, painted Over and over again, considering All the various ways a woman would venture Read more
How to Become a Teenage Bulimic
When I was young, my mother Was obsessed with not eating. She’d scream, Skip the carbs, no bread Or rice. Today I view food Like a used car salesman, The mirror as a cross-examination To see if anything is amiss, The muffin top, the sags. And still, I hear the Read more
Optical Illusion
I hate to imagine the times I made my mother cry behind the closed door. She wanted to see my face when she looked at her reflection, but I was on the other side of a two-way mirror. I didn’t want to look like her, after seeing her twist and Read more
