“Mostly Love, Now” and “The Cows at Night”
Since posting the speech by George Saunders I’ve been searching, without success for the poem he mentions by Hayden Carruth, …
Category Archives: Poetry
Tremble of a Leaf, Balancing Interior and Exterior Lives
I wrote this poem as a grad student while living in that highly interior world of academia. I’d been feeling …
Song of Me and Mine
Tonight as we marvel at the summer solstice super-moon, our family will be celebrating our daughter’s birthday. In remembrance of this lovely event, …
Into the Flow, Mountain Top and Market Place Experiences
Have you ever felt being in the flow of things? That optimum experience that many athletes and artists feel when …
Celebrating Lasting Love
They say opposites attract. That was true when my husband and I first met. I found in him everything I …
Love Lost, and Renewed
Not long after I decided to leave my husband I met someone new. I was working part-time at a book …
Love’s Duplicity
When I first fell in love, it was a hot thing—urgent, possessive, almost feverish at times. I truly saw love …
The Geometry, and Geography, of Love
I wrote these poems while still quite young, and very much in love, and loving the way our bodies “meet and …
Some Silly Little Love Poems, Unloosed at Last
In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, I will be releasing over the next week or so some poetry …
Wheeling Away on the Isle of Pines
Certain poems I return again and again to tap into a state of mind that I was experiencing while writing …
