fine poetry to turn your world around
This poem was previously published by South Florida Poetry Journal. It was also included in my debut poetry collection, Let Go of the Hands You Hold (Mercer University Press), as a QR Code so readers could put down the page and listen to me perform the poem from the stage. Inspired by Gabriela Garcia Medina, […]
BalanceI could write endlessly about all things forebodinghurricanes and turbulencemore likely due to warmer air that reminds us of a season we hope to thrive in.From June’s blossoms come a life in harvest, dark soil blankets the roots of all that green:a pasture, cross haired vines, meadows abundant with wild petals every bloom opens in […]
Coming Into FocusRereading Anna Karenina for the umpteenth time,but as a mother with grandkids, I pause at parts I once skimmed, linger on the children’slaughter and little scissors,skimming the love affairs,focusing mostly on Levin,scything in hot sun,evoking my Polish husband,fluent in Russian,who died with a well-marked War and Peace on his nightstand,whom we buried in […]
Snow White, Rose Red After Anne Sexton No matter what life you lead the body is an engine that must be fed; caviar or beetroot, the inner furnace stoked. There are other hungers, in a village of immigrants: empty bellies, like brown dogs, are everywhere. But there is a cost. And so there were two […]
