Poems

The menu is simple yet elegant  Irish crystal paired with prestigious peaks that soar above 14,000 feet but are bare of […]

We came in ones and twos to join the ones already thereand took our places to celebrate the life she had left

Cool flakes land sweet tiny gifts as the sky kisses my face, a shy offer of lovefrom an unknown place. Like any

I find myself alone when I enter the hushed housesurprised into stillness by the emptiness.Suspended I linger long enough to

The cow stands broadside, head turned to stare at me an awkward stance she holds for minutes, for centuries,as I

Underneath the snow I know the living lie in waitcontent to doze through short days.Like the marmot,a hibernation champion who

My heart throbs with the news that hospice has come to him, and it awakens me to what it can

We talk of how we are letting our hair be gray, letting ourselves be as we are.Sitting with the old,

I don’t always listen to the woods around me when I hike.Sure, I hear the humph of my shoes hitting