Category: poems

Emily’s Clothes

Mother of Pearl, ©2014. Two of my favorites poets…an intimate embrace…ah, summer is coming. Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes First, her tippet made of tulle, easily lifted off her shoulders and laid on the back of a wooden chair. And her bonnet, the bow undone with a light forward pull. Then the long white dress, a… Continue reading Emily’s Clothes

Can I try to express: that love is hard, that while many good things are easy, true love is not

Space Quilt, ©2014. Excerpt from Flying Home 3 As this plane dragged its track of used ozone half the world long thrusts some four hundred of us toward places where actual known people live and may wait, we diminish down in our seats, disappeared into novels of lives clearer than ours, and yet we do… Continue reading Can I try to express: that love is hard, that while many good things are easy, true love is not