Beautiful Tonight
You made me feel so beautiful tonight. I wonder if the sea felt much like me as silver stars caressed …
Category: Love
Warmth
A baby rests his sweaty head against my rising chest. His gentle snoring melts all dread, the bass that leads …
Mama’s Walking Stick
Where wild abounds and nature calls / a trail winds through a gentle wood, / along a stream then to small falls, / where she met him, and love was good.
Ill-Fitting Finery
Seventeen seconds to seventeen years. The first expired as I mined for gold flecks sparkling in blue eyes, tick-tocking against …
Sugar Maple
My lover is a sugar maple tree, her back erect and regal, erudite, her breast replete with summer’s greenery, her …
A Prayer for Home
Thank you for letting me rest my heavy head on the needlepoint pillow, so I can melt into a reclining …
Fatherhood
You came to me a welcome thief, I have no one to blame. I held a foolish, firm belief that …
Once Soft and Smooth
Soft, soothing hands would rock a crying son To sleep; would clap and cheer when he would run; Then work …