When their lips touched, it was soft, tender as a new bruise, a fragile thing that neither was sure of. Yet for all its fragility, […]
Love’s Necklace
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Your love is a necklace that lays upon my heart, its light a solid beacon that only you and I can see. It is how […]
The Space of a Heartbeat
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The old will tell you life goes by in the blink of an eye. They are not wrong, but we don’t see that until our […]
Thoughts During Pride Month
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In the early 1970s I stood at the train station on a summer afternoon, a lone young woman surrounded by a hundred men, most of […]
The World in Your Eyes
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You held the world in your eyes: a bright summer sky that sparkled over water when you felt joyful or mischievous, or light gray slate […]
The Last Poem
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This is the penultimate poem in a thirty day challenge– not the last poem, but the next to the last. But it could be the […]
Sick of Love
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Emily Dickinson said all we know of love is that love is all there is. I distinctly remember that because it was written on our […]
Love Snapshots
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Love comes in many guises and depths. As Emily Dickenson once wrote: That love is all there is, is all we know of love. Valentine’s […]
In Your Arms
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In Your Arms Dedicated to my mother, Gladys Irene Sprathoff, 1919-2001. You hold the baby with loving arms. Pressed against your ample bosom, there is […]
I Want to Thank you
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I Want to Thank You (Dedicated to my family) It’s the time of year when we think about giving thanks, though heaven knows we should […]
