Poetry


Winterscape with Hair Gel and Citrus
Each day you wak to the same gray sky, snow covering the gass like scarves the women wear …


Annunciation
After Fred broke up with me,I returned to graduate schooland immersed myself in six classes,an overload, trying to heal. One sunny autumn day,I sat alone


The jar the woman left beside the well
the large jar lays beside the well of the city’s forefather …


Malchus
There are at least two Machuses in heaven. Malchus according to LUke has at least two ears but no name …


Michigan Spring
First leaves of trout lily among the roots of a bare beech tree …


Manual Labor
Against the turnings of solstice hope sprouts eternal …


Wrapped and Laid
Wrapped and laid beginning and end bloth and cloth birth and death …


Every Sunday Morning
the phone rings–my grandmother’s voice winds through static, light as the creek curling around her back porch …


It’s About Us
It’s about us which is an empathy pronoun, replacing her and him and you and it and, praise the Lord, other.


Lost Sheep
Seventy-seven pounds of wool on that merino sheep who got lost
in the Outback.


Table
Let the sparrow take a chair at the Juneteenth table with Elijah …


You Said, Let There Be Light
You said, Let there be light, and there was light. And you saw that the light was good …