Sometimes amid the hum and drum and din
All Poems
While I made the Mushroom Bourguignon… while I
There’s a story in my family… Aunt Peg,
For my neighbor, Eileen
Sometimes— [...]
A dry-hot day…
and the [...]
Once upon a time I [...]
One bright day
I saw [...]
Exaltation!
Jubilation!
Celebration!
The oak [...]
Some people get issued ladles [...]
The ancient words of Ecclesiastes [...]
Big green Tupperware
bowl, my dishpan. [...]
After years of unrelenting drought [...]
This crisp autumn night,
I’m cuddled [...]
A hot, dry, breathless day. [...]
In improv theater
you act [...]
It happens at random,
most [...]
A Christmas Eve like no [...]
Stopping on the sloping verge [...]
I take delight in creating [...]
Years ago, a beloved very [...]
Before [...]
Sometimes when I can’t get [...]
All my adult life I [...]
Written for and read at [...]
A retreat in the mountains [...]
My mother,
our mother,
died [...]
In my dream, I am [...]
Sometimes I look up from [...]
I’m sitting
on our balcony [...]
The house is clean,
vacuumed, dusted [...]
