M.I.A.
It’s Friday and the reason I’m not here writing sensual poems with unhappy endings is because I’ve gone to the gym to dash off a quick three miles and hurl myself through the Nautilus circuit so I can be in G’s classroom by 10:30 where I will volunteer to be her teacher’s punching bag for […]
Excellence, Entourage and My Big Mouth
Slouchy is paying it forward today. While her blog has been rated excellent by fans everywhere, she has been kind enough to sweep a few of us along in the eddy of her success. She has waved her magic writing wand and doled out some ‘excellents’ of her own. I am blushing and giddy […]
Ten more hours, but who’s counting?
Before first light there is the shushing quiet that is snow at dawn. I’m thirty four years old and the winter landscape, sugar coated trees and drifts of snowflakes across the lawn at sunrise, still takes my breath away. That quiet peaceful beginning was, unfortunately, not any indication of the day to come.
I suppose […]
Consolation
Today is like a sloppy kiss
A promise made that can’t be kept
Though it is a tiny white lie, a minute deception.
It’s baby girl’s nursery, soft streaks of pinkish hope in the sky at dawn.
The world for an instant is rose colored drifts of scenic fog
Obscuring the banal and the ordinary.
Even the neighbor’s garage is […]
