Tending to Make Peace

The Marriage of True Minds

Way More than Cool

Wasn’t his type:lipstick, pierced ears, cool chiclooking for a light.

Camarosa

Sunset sprawls;Mother Earth’sexposed crownreadies for acareful clippingweeded and watered,watered and weeded. Don’t pour tearson serrated leaves;summer season’s slow,let latent buds … More

On a Jet Plane

A Sulky Sleep

Grumpy skies,cranky flat cloudforms my pillow;tucked to one side.Thunder grumblesas letdown lightning strikes. Pitter-patter,pins and needles,my sullenness pours.Gurgling gutter,I’m pulled … More

Stories Written In Chalk

Draw a box,hopscotch,tippy toes,count and hop.This spring,my son’s Titanic sinksin the concrete sea.Impressionistic flowers,daughter’s rainbow fingersarch with belief.I raise my … More

My Easter Bunny Heart

Happy Easter! I’m traveling today, so I thought I’d re-post some Easter-themed pieces from the past, you know, just in … More

Quadrille #149 To Everything

Time to collect sticks and slimy stones from forest stream.To bandage boo-boos, kiss my childrens’ playtime injuries.Time to spread knowledge; … More

Eyeing the Quadrille #147

Björn is the host for tonight’s Quadrille #147, a 44-word poem containing the word “eye.” I was inspired by my visit … More

Quadrille #146 I Live in Salt

Draw Out a Water Muse–Quadrille #143

DeJackson aka WhimsyGizmo tasked us with summoning our inner muse and creating a quadrille-44 word poem that includes the word … More

The Truth About Tinsel–Quadrille #142

The truth about tinsel:poor man’s ice,telltale trashbag tree,treebangs of the 80’ssprinkled to hidethe ugly limbs,the dried dull-grey,the balding spots.

A Starry Crown-Quadrille #141

I wanna wear a starry crownjangle jewels of joy, let my soul shinedespite the flawed design;seeds scattered in darknesssurvive underground.

A Sorta Fairytale Quadrille #140

Ashes are for Remembrance

Strike of matchleaf departing treefall of flint and ashsizzling flags set free.Skittering bones, wetrudge the season’s catacombs.

Famished Frogs

Nothing’s wrong, but worry lingers on.Putrid pond, scum forms tight bonds.Frogspawn, mutant genes carry on.Tadpoles feed on fresh-water encephalon.Growing long, … More

Shady Groove

Stitches made from switches,momma said our mouths were ditches;beatings are a blight you can’t removegrowing up inside a shady groove.

Sticky Trap

The Dangers of Going with the Flow-Quadrille #132

A rocky stream never goes to bed,flows like a blackout curtainspilling me past the shallowswhere I cling and gasp,stranded on … More

Exit Wound

Silver rings wound roundtwo fingers, tightness lingers,after many bobsup and down;our marriage isa merry-go-round. Laughter out on the town, thenthe … More

The Wisdom of Jack-Quadrille #127

Traded Bess for some beans,but beans are seedsplanted proudly,rooted in determination,producing something from nothing-rabbits in hats,replenishing themselves,magic fountains of youth.The … More

Confuzzle-Quadrille #126

Quadrille # 125 Anthocyanin Angel

Anthocyanin Angel,silky soak of sanity,the beveled glasslevels me; it steadiesafter each cerise sip.A blissful brook,a pencil’s tip,a chambré stream,wine sharpens … More