Wine in water bottlesI find my way to the benchesBy my phone flashlightThe lap of the wavesThousands of starsThe lights of Marinette across the bay […]
A guest in a sailboat race
Tack, jibe, head port side I grab the winch and wind, wind My first sailing race With Love,Natalie
See You Soon
The week endsThe hive goes homeI choked up in the parking lotAnd then go do my laundry When I was eighteen I got catcalledAfter dropping […]
A quintessential summer snapshot
A quintessential summer snapshot:A late morning boat ride around Egg HarborHot dogs on the balconyReading and writing by the shore The smell of sunscreen and […]
Bad Advice
Someone is alwaysOn vacation, happy hourLasts and lasts and lasts I don’t mind, laughs andGood wine and politicsStories over snacks I brag about myBoundaries, prioritiesBreak […]
A Series of Decisions
A novel is a series of decisionsThat’s the hard partThat’s the slogThe deciding, scene by sceneBut . . .There comes a pointWhere you’ve made all […]
Ghost Made Visible
I wrote an angryStuttering poemBut then I rememberedThat just becauseI got something out of meDoesn’t meanIt needs to pierce someone else So here’s is a […]
Fireworks
It’s like we were inside the fireworksThey shot directly over our headsBoomed and scattered across the nightTrails of golden light . . . trails of […]
If the earth stopped spinning
If the earth stopped spinningAll at once1,000 mph to zeroIn under sixty secondsThe rotations would stopBut the oceans would notImagine, all the water1,000 mph across […]
Mercury
I look up the dates for mercury in retrogradeA phenomenon I don’t really believe inBut I’m searching for an explanationTo why what was easy is […]