I have a friend Named Joseph A nation-known legend Brilliant at musical score. Other people tell me this But we rarely speak of it. Sometimes we call each other With good reason, too– Busy, bustling business. Only–he laughs too easily, And then I do, too, And we digress over and Over and over Into storyContinueContinue reading “Friend Poem No. 2”
Category Archives: Family
Friend Poem No. 1
I have a friend Named Noah. A Viking man– Broad and bearded. He is the Ferdinand the Bull of Vikings. His solid shoulders could Plunder villages, His brawny knuckles Break through doors, Carry piglets to the ship, Him unheeding his bleeding cuts. But, He doesn’t. Sometimes he makes his sister Picnics. Her favorite foods InContinueContinue reading “Friend Poem No. 1”
My Super Sister
When we were little, my father had a plastic milk crate of comic books, leftover from his childhood, which were stashed in a sliding cupboard in the dark, old paneling of the basement. Most of the comic books were about Spiderman and Batman and whoever-else-MAN, but, a few were about a dark-haired Amazon named Diana.ContinueContinue reading “My Super Sister”
For Mothers
I was posting flyers through my local neighborhood when I found a couple of Mother’s Day cards in a local store. It was a small shop, hipster-run, and the cards were locally made, and I realized that this fit most of my qualifications for a good purchase, so I bought a card and sent itContinueContinue reading “For Mothers”
Worth celebrating
Yesterday I was rubbing my chin, absentmindedly, as I wrote, and I realized that I was growing a singular bristle-hair on the right-hand side, on my jawline, so I got up and walked to the bathroom and plucked it with some pink tweezers I keep on hand for any such occasions. And then I thoughtContinueContinue reading “Worth celebrating”
What the Lord hath done
One time, when I was dressed in a floor-length gown and I was holding flowers, I sat in the front pew of a church and watched my brother marry a good woman. There is a prayer sometimes used in wedding masses, a special prayer for the wife, full of beautiful words and phrases and wishes–thatContinueContinue reading “What the Lord hath done”
New Year’s Report
Remember when it was a few months ago and I learned that the retreat I go on EVERY New Years for the past LITERALLY SEVEN OR EIGHT New Years was cancelled this year? I probably told you this. What I didn’t tell you is that it threw me into a leetle bit of a tailspinContinueContinue reading “New Year’s Report”
We’re not promised good friends
“We’re not promised good friends,” a wise woman once told me, “if we find them, it’s really just a grace.” On Friday I went to lunch with this guy. I met the man at work, my job two jobs back. At first, we were on different floors, but, sometimes I would go to his officeContinueContinue reading “We’re not promised good friends”
Morning glory
There was a toddler at my house. What wonder. I arrived home from work on Tuesday, and she was there already, her hair tight-curled into a baby Afro–America’s newest Shirley Temple–star of the show. She was playing in the basement with my parents, on a cart my mother bought her. If she sits on it,ContinueContinue reading “Morning glory”
*Cliche saying about family/ memories*
It was my mother’s birthday a few weeks ago. We had ice cream and deep dish pizza (her favorite). This past Mother’s Day, she remarked as we drove to church, that her mother (my grandmother, Cecelia or, as I knew her, “Grandma D”) would sometimes remember the day my mother was released from the hospital.ContinueContinue reading “*Cliche saying about family/ memories*”
Seashell Nell 