You were sweet and you were warm your curves and bumps gave you form That’s why I called you she You were all the world to me To see you...

My entire career sleeping in a bed, I have slept on top of the bedspread with additional blankets piled on top of me. Last week, I...

I keep my silence until I want to be heard, and that’s ok. with you. I like to be myself, and different and that’s ok. with you. I am...

She taught me to love onions: big, sweet Bermuda onions cut in half, sprinkled with salt, served with thick slabs of sour corn rye buried...

I am like an old valley oak tree, touching raindrops between trembling leaves – digging tentacles into fertile earth: searching this...

lake and sky gradually darken. The highest peaks hold the sun. All the fishing boats have gone home. A trout lifts miraculously out of...

The spring of innocence glistens in your hair, my touch shares the warm fervor of your birth, a humid fullness that washes the storm away...

Long thin branches bracing against trees straggle towards light, one blossom crowning each reaching tip. Leaning across creek bed...

This morning I passed by some beauty, and, for a moment the world stood still as a hushed breath. prancing through the neighborhood,...

Three girls blowing bubbles by the sea hundreds of bubbles playing in the breeze fragile, crystal globes innocent, playful, ephemeral...

It was two-thirty on a morning back in sixty-four, and we met in a small hall between our rooms. She stood robed with hair fanned over...

Something changed. I don’t know when exactly, no signal. No clear sign. And, I don’t know how, either, but something did change. A tiny...

There is a legend of a bird who sings just once in her life From the moment she leaves the nest she searches for a thorn tree, singing...

As the pigeon streaks through darkened skies and finds its home: As a salmon swims unerringly from beneath the sea To find its birthplace...

When I carried you, I made my deepest commitment: I cradled you in my bones. I shared my food and breath. I made your world out of...

Today you'd be one hundred and three. When you would have been a hundred we celebrated with a dinner and party in your honor. Each of...