Dec 23, 2019ChristmasDear Friends, I am listening to Christmas music. Why? To get myself more and more awake to the true meaning of Christmas. Maybe I’m...
Dec 24, 2018TreesHow any poem is created is a mystery to me. How concrete (shape) poems like the three below happen is an even greater mystery. I had...
Dec 17, 2018Looking for ChristmasRain had fallen for days. Puddles, all over the yard. The days had been dark and cold. I could feel it inside my body. It made me reflect...
Dec 25, 2017It’s Christmas!Jessica, my mail carrier, beat me to the mailbox yesterday, so I’m taking Christmas cards into downtown Norfork, population 511. My...
Dec 18, 2017My TrainI look at the shadows growing long in the yard. They come from a tall maple and our old ribbed house. There they lie on a hard yard like...
Dec 11, 2017Salvation Army Saved UsMy mother left when I was 14. Daddy sat on the floor in a corner. He drank too much. But I had my six brothers and my five sisters. As...