- - Shades of Red A man will tell you if you say The dress was coral that he doesn’t know what color that is. It’s a funny joke tha...

- - Everything’s mine but just on loan, nothing for the memory to hold, though mine as long as I look. . . . . . . I won’t retain one blade ...

- - Winter blur I How strange suddenly to read the word ermine and think of a woman’s neck, warmed, blurred with white fur, and not ...

- - Woman and cloud From her propped hospital bed the old woman who nearly died a few days ago now talks and talks, while a continent...

- - my mom   Endless Fingering the past and its memories like beads of stone or bone, like the ivory necklace of your mother’s you wor...

- - It's National Poetry Month, and suddenly my well has run dry. When I had no particular excuse for writing and posting poems, they p...

- - me and Mom on my wedding day, April 8, 1978 Mom with Peter in 1982 Mom and Lesley in 1981 Mom at around age 5 Lesley, wit...

- - . . . "for the roses Had the look of flowers that are looked at." T.S.Eliot 4 quartets p 14 Looking in my fluorescent ma...

- - "She sat there filled with champagne. S he talked about hashish and its effects. I said, 'I have known such effects without ha...

- - To read more about the Montgomery Bus Boycott, go here . To read more about Rosa Parks, go here , or read her autobiography, Rosa Parks,...