All Poems

Welcome


Our cat is enigmatic, inscrutable [...]

Garden Party


Sitting in the chair at [...]

Experiencing the Pain


Toward the end of this [...]

Bumping Into Wonder


I almost walked
right by [...]

 

Over 500,000 homes destroyed [...]

 

For Cecile and all my [...]

The Digital Age

 


When I was a girl [...]

The Iron Cross

 


The gymnast--every move
and muscle [...]

The Thing You Didn’t Want


When The Thing You Didn't [...]

Once Upon Our Time


for Larry
I find when [...]

 

 


Last night I went [...]

Wintering


I have just crawled out [...]

Drinking It In



 
After four years of [...]

Swan, Walking


In the water, the swan...with [...]

You Can’t Put a Cat


You can't put a cat. [...]

The Edge

 


I just noticed!
I am [...]

California, Lake Oroville, 2014

I remember [...]

Waiting for the Train


When I spotted you in [...]


Just for a second,
almost [...]

The Widow’s House

To All My Brave Readers: From [...]

I Can’t Handle The Truth

 


Long ago,
down in the [...]

Simple Will Suffice


I read in the paper [...]

Things Fall Away


As far back as I [...]

If Ye Have Eyes


I fill a color-swirled,
artist-made [...]


Holy guacamole, it finally happened [...]

Street Sweeper


A low-level job,
a mindless [...]

Umbilical Poem


In the last several years [...]

The Cat Rules


When we first met our [...]

Sierra Alarm


In the High Sierras, it [...]