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Thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here and want to keep up on poetry and 32 Poems, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Well, my grandmother’s funeral is over. We emptied her closet of the clothes she’ll no longer need and that we don’t want. We donated them to a place […]
I’ve always loved a fire, a controlled fire. Fire engages the senses with its scent, its crackle, its heat, its color. My friends evacuated San Diego and made a dash for Arizona during the worst of the recent California wildfires. My father drove past the charred remains of Florida’s tropical flora during the worst of […]
Tonight I called GD (not G-D) and we talked for a long time about settling, traveling (she wants to settle and I’m ready to travel) and poetry. I miss those phone calls with her. Like me, she is a bit nostalgic for Florida. How did the hour talking with her go so fast?
We met San […]
When I first applied to MFA programs, I spent hours spreading my poems out on my living room floor and figuring out what order to place them in. It seems silly now. At any rate, I applied and got into a number of places. When I look back on where I applied, those schools seem […]
DH and I visited an estate sale last Saturday. At every estate sale, there is the “woman’s room” filled with handmade afghans, lacey items, hats, etc. The “man’s room” will have fedora hats, pipes, tobacco cannisters, etc. Somewhere in the house will be some kind of medical equipment — the white plastic seats for the […]