Face first between rooms Knees greet porcelain cold floor- Family called me “Grace.”
Tag: Life
Another Blue Moon Night
I lie in bed gazing at the full moon staring back at me through a crescent window high on my bedroom wall. It has been the same for twenty seven years now…my personal time with the dark sky. In twenty seven years, 324 full moons plus a few extra blue moons. Interesting, yet trivial knowledge […]
Into the wide open
We recently completed our most recent trip around the Sun another year encoded in the history book of life as we know it on this small blue oasis in the milky way in my world the temperate weather had streaks of cold, icy weeks, even snow. Though aches in my old bones, I still managed […]
A Longing for Thoreau
I hold fast to my walking stick as I leave the beaten path to follow my own trail Into only partially familiar woods. There is a part of me that hunkers down Here, within the gloom of autumn or later, the promise of spring Tilt back my head Shake my mane and Sniff the air. […]
Summer
it feels like she’s come too early summer/with her slatternly, gaping smile her too bright yellow view of the day summer/when some of us are broken our spirits crushed when all that is left are mud puddles and empty, hollow eyes.