The Desert Doesn’t Cry The desert doesn’t cry It needs all the moisture it can get Just to stay alive. Every drop of tears Can be sucked out Leaving skeletons To tell their stories. Needles dare you To reach in And steal their juice. The ground beneath your feet Can burn your soles If you […]
You Mother, You Father, I light a candle in my heart for you today. A candle that includes all eight of us children, born from you yet left to find our own lights almost from the day of our births. You had your childhoods as well. Childhoods that did not serve you either. I cannot […]
Different Poems within the Timelines of my Life Rhythm and Rhyme; The Blossoming of Images through Dreams; Beginning in Recent Time; Some Full in Front & Center Space; Others Still Hidden; Hazy in the Weaving of Lace; Shreds of Memories; of Days Long Ago. Watershed years I didn’t remember came so early in […]