Is it story or prose or poem? Do you show and tell and depict and describe? Do you take the reader on a little jaunt? A journey? A jolly jog along the poetic prose path where image and sensation and words frolic among the leaves and tramp or circle or swirl into a moment in […]
I Am Words
I am words and sentences and paragraphs compressed into my sinews, paper scraps stashed between the pleats and folds of my life. I am diamond hard-edged words that tumble from my pen on a streaming string from my brain to fingertips. A marching column of ants, letters flow from one to the next and can […]
Wardrobe Worlds
The wrinkles of Narnia and the Chronicle of time were mirrors and Mrs. Who’s glasses to see my Self in a land where I was self-less and self-erased, self dimmed by neglect, abandonment, shame. I met strong characters with wants and wishes spoken then fulfilled, searching and finding fathers and brothers and sisters and mothers […]
Cocoon: A Papoose of Thoughts
I lounge in a papoose of thoughts and theories, memories and plans. Clock ticking the seconds, I traverse a foggy trance, Bing-ing each book title or bubble idea that floats into my mind or materializes before my eyes on page and screen and journal. To write, to muse, perchance to dream, I knit story and […]
Caregiver: Call Me
Call me caregiver. Call me watcher and waiter and sitter and maker of circles of care. Call me at night and at work and at home about transfusions and treatments and transition. Call me medicine giver, aid giver, advice giver taking notes, taking charge, taking the reins by storm. Call me armed with compassion and […]
Lean: Sway and Rock and Bend
We lean and hover and attend and follow, told to jump and how high and to run and how far. We must lean in and parcel and cut the steak into bite sized pieces so we do not choke or knockout them who think their might makes right and their old ideas are new. We […]