Poetry

Poems of reflection, transition, earth communion, eco-grief, and soul truth, written in the crucible of lived experience.

offline

  I need the warm curl of fingers around a pen the brush of hand across paper scratch of a ...

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Fox Medicine

sister fox fleeing through forestland (it’s All so vast over- whelming roots branches sweeping ground touching sky) preying upon/preyed upon ...

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Dark Silence

dark silence desires no words strikes the hand weak mouth dumb that frame them dark silence like smoke flees the ...

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Thanks Giving

A bow to you, my friends of fur and feathers you bearers of witness to sentience in the four-legged winged ...

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raw

if the news were a movie and i a child watching i’d be asking mommy can we go home now? ...

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A Cappella

I wrote this at the end of my son’s senior year of college, five months after my husband’s passing. Towering ...

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Coupling

“…whether it is husband and wife coupling in their love and birthing a child; whether it is a widow coupling ...

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The End of Euphememory

stuffed like dolls like taxidermied heads like blackmailers’ file drawers with fascial paper crinkled with jugular ink a rubbermaid bin ...

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