It is, indeed, okayto say I love you.We say it in so many ways, verbalised or not. I'm so sorry for your loss. Please know that you're not alone,and although no one can walk your journey,our concentric human ripples overlap. Know that it's okay to grieve....
It's early morning the day before Thanksgiving. There came about 8 more inches of snow overnight. There's almost an expectant hush, like something more than dawn lies over the horizon. Although there's no moon, it's luminous. Starlight shimmers off the he...
Re: * GIFT * Ahhhh. A sharp hiss inward, a backward sigh, like a kiss being Took my breath away. From where my inscrutable shadows eclipse a heart sometimes The view - but such a life-affirming image. The water rushes back in. The oxygen returns, pulled i...
Isis: elegy to my cat who's still with me or, my lesbian lover II. Like autumn bears the brunt of winter yet to come -- ambritch, scratch those strictures! sharpen, shorten your claws! on the loose pine of my first dining room mostly banished to my office...
Black Beauties, or: from Mali to East Africa, spanning a continent The short, heavy, gleaming cashier -- I was afraid to say why -- I was so distracted -- stunned almost -- by the historic hairdo she wore so . . . well, it reminded me so strongly of Mali...
Oh the egg (an elegy for Zipporah) O the egg -- endless image of the hard-boiled egg, all it was meant to stand for: like the cyclic forever-wedding rings, rebirth and springtime -- kindly expounded by the woman, the rabbi standing in for my husband's mo...
Black Squirrels From white squirrels on lawns, a child's handbook full of revolutionary popcorn in sewn-shut pockets: advice from a birthday present, "Steal This Book: or what to wear to a riot." I wore OD and combat boots, all I could afford (the next y...
I thought I would share this piece, travels and travails in search of the Cleveland Amtrak station, written in response to an invitation from an advocacy group to review the station from the perspective of those with disabilities. Although unsuccessful in...
a perfect cost accountancy of a relationship (that didn't add up) precise records of each transaction listed in the wrong column careful maths but errors made in posting debts carried forward even with all those regular payments no credit against...
“Expert” may be parsed into meaningful meme components: “ex” signifying former and “spurt,” a drip under pressure a Fox News expert on single mothers and the black family, says derelict parents nothing to do with slavery the struggles of Black America ha...
"Difficult . . ." difficult doesn't begin to encapsulate, or capture: "this." “This:” is unimaginable. I do my best to stand witness because someone must; to be present: a present, tense as long as it’s unobserved and given anonymously. ----------------...
sensible shoes kicked off in the foyer reclining across the overstuffed furnishing our shared liebesraum by turns hitched to helios or bathed in lunacy a lipstick kiss left on a mirror love burnishes the glass of twelve hours forever separating us
If on purpose, or by accident you keep pouring yourself into me like sand with water passing through it you think it’s leaching, leaching, leaching and filtered through while I don’t notice waves and salt, the sweetened dunes ----- with our respective anc...
I can't help but think of (react to)a four-letter word I associate with scatological banking and bad behaviour and bad loans and risk pools and those who stacked the deck in their own favour, with no regard for the house-of-cards that must eventually fail...
from the mulled rain in the quiet of absence a turtledove flew into my heart bruising its flight within my chest cooohr, cooohr rings out in echoes against the rib-vaulted narthex waxed liquid jewels spilt over the altarcloth earthquake and tsunami wakin...
