February 2, 2026
“everyone who works below
and who drives through dirty snow
hopes that once the plow’s relief is nearly nigh,
all their work won’t be undone”
January 27, 2026
I’m sure there is some scientific explanation,
but the idea of the clouds needing to let it all out is nicer.
Even storms need to pause and rest awhile.
January 17, 2026
I’m going to see my sis today.
She loves when I tell
her stories. [Laugh.] So I’m
wearing my fossil bracelet with
a chambered nautilus [66 million
years old]; Amber [I’ll make up
a date]; A shark tooth — not a fossil.
January 3, 2026
We were simpatico, mostly, except when you slipped into your father’s skin. Your dad and mom were hand in glove, you bragged. His hand, her pliant glove, I thought, but never said.
January 1, 2026
what lies behind the speaking oceans? what resides between the words trees have spoken? what have the hums of my ancestors awoken?
December 31, 2025
I am New Year’s Day
for a short twenty-four hours;
ready to give everyone a fresh start in life
as my life begins seconds before…
December 29, 2025
A night in summer
With spiking heat from the walls —
Sunlight grazing us.
Twilight in the dark
As looming as summer waves.
Simple but profound…
December 25, 2025
Will it snow on Christmas Eve?
I think somehow it might,
but only if we’re all asleep,
and Santa’s in flight.
December 25, 2025
One night, on her long journey south, the tiniest of owls, a Northern Saw-whet,
stops in a forest of black, wild spruces…
December 24, 2025
December 24, 2025
I’m tired of the suburbs
of ugly concrete views.
I’m exhausted by windows
that look on parking lots
and buildings dressed in drab gray
December 24, 2025
Your beauty’s in the flowers
Or in a drop of rain,
The mem’ries that we had
Forever will remain.