In response to heartbreak, here’s what I turn to:A best friend who shares her life with meA glass of red wine, or two, Mondays be […]
Dangerous
If you don’t want to think about HP or JKR, feel free to skip this. Look. I made a mistake and went on JKRs Twitter […]
PSA: The Danger of a $20 Heating Pad
A year or more agoI spent twenty dollarsOn an electric heating padTo keep on my lap What a fine ideaA center of warmth all day […]
Love Poems
I spend too long considering what to write tonight. I get wrapped up in old writing I’ve organized–brutal poems from some of the worst years […]
60
You count the years forwardI’ll count backwardWe’ll meet in the middle She tells me when I am too young to rememberBut I remember And here […]
After Work Run
Sometimes, after the long, long meetingsAny question makes me burst into tearsWhen I’m off-camera, at my deskLaughing at myself while all that pent up emotionSpills […]
Potatoes
From the 2007-2008 poetry archives . . . I once wrote a poem for my brother’s English assignment. We all thought it was very funny […]
Palindrome
The old tricksWhen the dates sneak upAlong with the bad dreamsMid-morning and try on some fancy clothesPlay upbeat musicThis is what mirrors are forA reflection […]
Time
Time, the original thiefWe study it with spreadsheets, with timersUntil it shrinks into scarcityWe calendar ourselves into holesAnd wonder why weeks last too longWhile the […]
One Day Later
Only two out of three flights delayed–but I’m home Cats, food, now we sleep With Love, Natalie