^{really cool ...but no Mom, it's not your urn}

I thought you'd like to know I nearly brought out your ashes for Mothers Day.  Then I decided against it.

Instead of you with your pretty pink face, round as the moon, I'd have to look at an ornate and boring… Read full post »

before the night a woman stands

her spine so rigid it might snap

 awaits that quiet roaring dusk

a crux inevitable as the dawn

 pebbles beneath her feet will shatter

glistening ribbons raven hair

sway then strain in vicious wind

she the living fire&n… Read full post »

Mother’s day is next week and my daughter in law is making a big fuss this year.  I think she has gotten it into her head that I’m getting close to kicking the bucket, so it’s time to celebrate old mom, which is just fine.    It’s long overdue if you ask… Read full post »

what is not known

never mattered in the slightest

life has it’s ways and there are times the universe cracks

and what eyes are willing to behold is in the clear rush of waters, endless time flowing through each and every we of mountain and sky, the dead… Read full post »

once hypnotized by the sun

a fool believed ease was at hand

never one to question

having flown so many times

from open windows and doors

at speeds greater than any

of the many voices 

hard and the sound of years 

and the crack… Read full post »

Up at 3:45, had to be in the gym by 5am.   I am the lady who checks you in to get your ballot, then adds the numbers at night.  this election wasn't like the last presidential election - there were no big emotions or tears, much less exuberence.   What… Read full post »

 frankenpoem

 for little sandy

it is a roiling helix of sky and clouds

dead center simmering quiet 

the ancient acid moon 

 surrounded by torn veils in

yellow light sinuously swirling twirl

tonight it is a mad ballroom

and the world is dancing

we've… Read full post »

I don't mind telling you, the public political discourse at this time is driving me nuts!  

blah blah blah!  Who is Mitt today?  What is his new position on...?  Isn't this a change of positions?  Again?  If it is, then what are his core beliefs?  Didn'/… Read full post »

two turtle doves in a plum tree

(Merry Christmas!)

Time to update the continuing saga - hopefully - of The All New Poochie Twins: nestmates and mourning dove fledglings who turned up on our property and took over my attention for a little while.  

I can report they matu… Read full post »

So the man and I, tethered as we are while he is on imposed hiatus or mandatory vision quest, either of which brings us to the meanwhile where we endeavor to “catchup” on endless yard work we have never once caught up on (and know in our hearts never will.  ever.)

I… Read full post »

I will tell you I have dreamed

of a calling, passion

in whisper

that tinkles so soft

it is nearly

not

listen carefully

you will hear love

in the slap of running feet and

we are water rushing to joy

I… Read full post »

you say you want to die

how can this possibly be?

have you looked in every corner

under every rock 

for the dazzling colors defined

in blinding light?

or is it only shadows that are visible? 

I consider who you are

I know there are secrets

that… Read full post »

I am so very fond of you

you needn’t wonder why

your words deliberate

worm my brain

they squirrel through my eye

how could I resist

such clever gist?

mere cabaret does pale

throughout my days

I think about

your… Read full post »

if you must visualize the poet imagine a lovely woman

(clearing throat)

 a stunning creature very much like

*drumroll please* 

Julie Andrews!

she is belting out the hills are alive! 

O sweet soprano

with arms wide

embracing her madly spinning world

fac… Read full post »

oh my beautys

may our lush bodies never fail

for we fly to the heavens of earth

wind pressing breast

cooling blood that fiercely pounds

through hoof and heart

spurring us on

faster! faster! 

and you know I cannot bear to… Read full post »

the blackest nights

and lived a thousand years

while the heaviness of heaven

weighs upon

weighs upon

raw within

screaming in fear

I am the bird falling

from all hells above

that endless where

wings have no loft

air so cold

it forbids

look to the gods… Read full post »

according to the news, the world is coming to an end again. 

I am constipated.  

recently I fell in love with a male from the house of Morgan 

I offer him carrots.  he snorts then butts me with his head.  

nothing changes.

not him but close… Read full post »

This is a continuation of a discusson inspired by a terrific piece by Jeanette Demain entitled:  Breasturants, Hypocrisy and Sexual Kitsch
  
In response I wrote (retitled as): OPEN CALL: gettin' back to tits and ass American Style 

Phyllis… Read full post »

This is an expansion of my comment in response to a great piece by Jeanette Demain, that started it all titled:  Breasturants, Hypocrisy and Sexual Kitsch.  Phyllis suggested this as an OPEN CALL: so I'm comin' at you.  OPEN CALL: from toddlers to women, getin' back to that good o… Read full post »

 my brain hurts today. 

"we are not able to put this right, all this wacky shit!  and after trying to piece it into something cohesive and then finding out we needn't have bothered, we're collectively, proactively pissed!"

  "SO! being we're stuck here in your fuck… Read full post »

^{Behold!  the most delicous sugar free cookies in the world!} 

Now  that I’m regularly whipping up ricotta cheese in my little kitchen - which btw, is the easiest thing in the world to do, I am compelled by frugal duty to followup with recip… Read full post »