FIRST THOUGHT: 3 10 2021
First thought: Today the daylight is 2 minutes and 19 seconds longer than yesterday.Second thought: Rise up in half-light, naked and alone, windchimes, bare tree branches in the gusts like shadows of…
DESCENDANTS DANCE ON
"Than Tsídéh, 19, of the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo dances on the empty platform where a statue of Juan de Oñate was removed." Photograph: Gabriela Campos for The Guardian, in the…
LEARNING TO LOVE IN LOCKDOWN
After posting this poem and photo of my mom and me, I made a greeting card of it and sent it to my beautiful mother because she is alone in…
DEGREE OF ILLUMINATION
Would you know the degree of illumination the moon was willing to bestow upon you if you turned your open face skyward to take her in? What if there was…
WHEN WE ARE ALL FREE
I am going to hear my boot heels on those stone steps for lifetimes. I am going to open my eyes and let the breath leave my body when he…
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…