Creative Writing

Child hugging adult affectionately

Call Your Mother

Call your Mother. When I call my Mom these days, I have not seen her...
Milky Way over forest trees

April’s Third & Fifth Snowstorms

iii As the pine’s whisper and the geese fly overhead just above the eves of...
Crocus blooming in winter snow

April’s Fourth Snow

What business do you, December’s strapping scent of snow, –accompanied by the frigid slap of...
Hungry chicks with open beaks

Skylark revisited

  Pace yourself–breathe deep It’s a long arduous race and it’s only just begun Rising...
Person standing confidently by a fire

For Percy, James & Jack

In the quiet by the fire I see who I was And who I may...
Robin perched in snowy weather

April’s Second Snow

I wish I could capture Your prehensile strength Bare my breast and fly    ...
Two crows on gravestones in misty graveyard

Six feet apart

Please shelter in place: six feet apart is better than six feet under    ...
Lion's mane illuminated by soft light

Calling all hearts

Do you hear that roar? Life’s not for the faint of heart Courage is calling...
Lightning over wooden pier at sunset

A Conscious Yes

A conscious yes Will open a place within Where silence thunders
Small bird resting on tree limb

Forsythia waits

April’s gentle winds Lift sparrows from hydrangea Forsythia waits