Weekdays I go to work and come home tired my love has cooked dinner- yes, he’s retired; on weekends I make fresh coffee and breakfast creations and do the dishes and plan dinner… All of this excitement… This morning- breakfast pizza eggs , sausage, hash browns grilled onions and peppers. This evening- homemade Pazole. I wonder what […]
Cooking winter memories
The breeze suddenly shifted, the temps drift downward… Romeo lugs the citrus trees back in the houseafter the young tomato transplants are covered. Austin, Texas weather… The gardeners challenge- 2014! Pot of pintos on the stove with ham hock… we’ll have cheese biscuits later, too. Reminds me of my eldest son… […]
I can feel a change coming in the air tonight…
Today, our windows were thrown open, air filtering through the wet morning fog and afternoon sun. My heart is happy, my soul smiled. Romeo continues to work the garden beds He’s planted a few tomato plants sowed peas, radishes; he, humbly, grumbly considered my potential cucumber hoops instead of the standard upright trellis… Since the execution […]
The face in the mirror
My face is rumpled… a splash of sunlight and smiles, of freckles and porcelain… of promises broken and fulfilled of motherhood and loss of motherhood and disappointment of love and of ecstasy and constant sorrow of the woodlands and the meadow of the shoreline and the sea of the firmament and the cosmos my face […]
Valentine Moon
Valentine sky filled with the soft tawny glow of this February Moon; Snow Moon of the Human Beings, the natives of this land. First pulled to the window then all the way outdoors to watch the ascent in the eastern darkness staring and moving to view the beauty from behind the naked trees my bare […]
I call him Romeo but he was never really all that romantic or necessarily faithful… My soul recognized his soul thirty eight years ago this Spring. I was tangled up in dreamy, impractical love adoring and clinging, jealous, possessive love. Other women warned me his grandmother, his mother and both of his previous wives… male […]
In winter’s grasp
I was hopeful, with the new year to gather new inspiration or, if not that at least energy… so far, not so. It has been a January of inaction mostly I am a good (or bad) three weeks behind in a poetry on-line class I could not wait to begin… I am paralyzed by Winter. […]
Remains of my day
The rain splattering on the deck awakened me before the alarms sequentially started the morning wake up sequence. Rain! I am hopeful that means fewer grains of pollen per million as my head is about to explode. Traffic crawls. I crawl with it. The hospital and it’s normal insanity are not going anywhere… Crisis follows mayhem; a new […]
Winter leaves
Trees fill my mind with poetry and books with leaves left as offerings for this poet at my feet… Just yesterday Romeo brings them to me: Three winter leaves Three separate shades of January We do have winter in Texas there are Leaves to admire and yes, leaves to press between the words of far greater poets. than […]
Out of the blue
January 2, 2014 Today, quite unexpectedly, I received a Christmas letter from a dear friend. It gave my heart pangs of grief as I attended her funeral on December 17, exactly one week after the funeral of my father. “Jinger” and my dad were nearly the same age. I first met her when she was a patient at a hospital where […]
Nancilynn is Writing again 