Monthly Archives: January 2015

Posthumously

Posthumously “When are you going to do something with your writing?” My husband queried a few years back. “I don’t want to have to deal with your writing posthumously.” Well now that was encouraging, I must say. The nerve. Posthumously…yikes! … Continue reading

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Daddy’s Robe (for cherie)

I ease into your robe thin as butterfly wings and just as beautiful to me Your scent, though fading fills the worn threads frail as you were when you died I picture you from years ago confident and proud pencil-pushing … Continue reading

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Longing

He’s lost to me now gone some other place I see him from a distance wandering with strangers When I’m with him the melancholy begins for both of us It doesn’t have a name And so I stand with one-way … Continue reading

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Nightmare

I reach past bruises in my brain to find the rhyme shattered in the night A fall nearly took it all away and left my heart with nothing left to say How sad a poet with no words

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