Creative Writing
“All of Us,” a 74-line poem about becoming a couple after the first wife dies, won an Honorable Mention in the Oregon Poetry’s Association Spring 2015 contest. Watershed Review “Dating a Dutch Scientist” and “Gold in the Mouth” in its December 2014 issue. Several of these poems appear in Saturday Afternoons, published March 2009. My photograph, “Laundry, San Felipe,” shot in Mexico’s Yucatan, is on the book’s cover. The Harney County poems come from my spring stint as the 2009 Eastern Oregon Writer-in-Residence.
Mothers and Dads
The mothers lay like the dead
on their beds, shoes shook free,
those late afternoons when
we rushed home from school Read More
Mated
That lone sock turned up
swaddled in a kitchen rag,
hiding out somewhere
under something, with nowhere Read More
Rat’s Nest
Being lovers is one thing,
building a sanctuary, another.
A twig misplaced,
a crumbling cradle Read More
Birders
Such a quirky lot with their lists
and trips to the Amazon,
exotic “gotcha” finds
and chronic neck aches Read More
Aphasia
My brilliant husband has
aphasia. His language
went haywire when
a stroke shattered Read More