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YOU SAID HALO

The sky is wide and forgiving.There were leaves and grass in my hairand a different look about me when you loved me.In the mirror, my morning face is map relief.You…

ORIGIN #11

Which came first, my love? The night sky, or the fissure of light splitting it?So many years ago, at dinner, you said to me,just before we sat at the glass-topped table,after…

NOT EVEN MEMORY CAN STOP US NOW

I went back today to the courthouse where I took my abuser to court almost two decades ago. It was the first time I've been back since that day in…

POEMS, PUBLISHING AND THE PIANO

With my publisher, Ron Moore of Baskerville Publishers, and the renowned pianist, José Feghali, Van Cliburn Gold Medalist, in Ron’s home in Fort Worth, Texas in May 0f 2014, months before the expanded, second edition of the scorched earth went…

MY COLLECTION OF POEMS, the scorched earth, ARRIVES!

I am overjoyed to announce that my book the scorched earth has arrived and is shipping! The Expanded, Second edition of the scorched earth and its audio companion, the scorched earth: spoken, is now available! This Second Edition, published by Baskerville…

SEASON

I collect leaves, walking alone at dusk in Kentucky autumn, for you, 3000 miles away in Northern California where climate and the wheel of the earth do not afford this turning blaze. Colors like pumpkin, like russet and corn yellow.…

Around This Table, REMEMBERING PCADV’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY

Today is the anniversary of the unveiling of the poem, Around This Table, that I was commissioned to write by The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV) to honor their 25th Anniversary in October of 2001. Susan Kelly Dreiss was…
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