Just for a moment
Or an afternoon
I’d like to be ten again
To be sitting in
My grandmother’s kitchen
Feeling uneasy
With the immense serenity
Of her place
Hearing her tell me
I’m a good girl
I’m good
I’m beautiful
I’d believe her
If I could
I wouldn’t think
She’s just saying that
Because she’s my grandmother
And she’s afraid for me
I’d let it come...
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I am the shadowy figure in dreams of people who have seen me drive by or spoken to me in the grocery store and I seem to say something quite directly to someone and it just slips right past their awake mind and into their dreaming mind unnoticed, undetected or ignored, maybe unwanted.
And I wonder if I’m alive and I can almost feel a hint of fear and sadness that I am not more fully here but it seems as...
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More rain on the way
And I can’t feel anything but grateful for it
Because of three years of drought
Of being careful and not wasting
Which of course meant no running through the sprinkler
For the kids and no water balloon tosses
Alex came home
In the middle of the day
And we sat together knee to knee
Leaning in
And came to understand some things
And those were things such as
There are no guarantees and...
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