Making Friends With Trees I go out and back to visit the tree. My love takes me to a different tree, a new one to love, big enough to climb inside of. My rubber boots gain enough traction: I belong within its green grace. Within this forest of ours where we’ve made ourselves belong over […]
Category: Poetry
January
January I’m winter The sky open in its grayness A depth summer never understands I’m the season you give yourself up to sleep To the hours that make no sense except Your body follows the sky’s mutations The moon’s pull, the light receding And returning. We rejoice at June’s long light But winter […]
Simple Song
Simple Song I am what I ask for Even as I search the phone, the book, the friend for one right answer— my life piles behind me I blow it away and take it in. I am what I ask for— Green leaf & blue sky Orange walls & red sweater Warm smile, […]
Saturated
Ah, the writing of the blog every day continues to be an interesting process. Today I’m busy with the ordinary (groceries, cleaning, laundry) and sad. Sad that one more Thanksgiving has passed, this time with my eldest almost 16. I mean, we are still in the middle of the holiday weekend, but I can’t help […]
Mall Rats
Hello! I hear it’s Black Friday. A quote about shopping from Seth Godin inspired my poem today. It’s a rough draft for sure, squeezed in before I start a day off. Hooray! Mall Rats “The buying race is over. Amazon won. The shopping race, though, the struggle to create experiences that are worth paying […]
Everything Works
It’s Thanksgiving, so I want to write you a praise poem, but my mind is on baking our tiny ham before we leave for my sister-in-law’s house. This is my favorite long weekend of the year, all this thanks and open space for being with my family. Yesterday I went to see “Justice League” with […]
Get Loud, Nancy
It’s been so quiet here. Life has been so loud, lately. Someone asked me once how often they should update their blog. I said update it only when you have something to say. Lately I’m saying so much at so many other places. The feature I wrote about trying to pass paid family leave in […]
Tired of Traveling Alone
We are ghost and shadow steeped in skin too hot to drink yet cold to the touch. I read a blog called the 27 powers. I don’t know what the 27 powers are. I have 27 powers. I can see too much. But I can’t see the whole story. […]
Not Alone Enough
Lately I’m stuck on a phrase that isn’t helping me. Have you heard of the idea that we are making it up as we go along? We are making it up as we go along. We are making the coffee and toasting the bread and waking the offspring. It is winter time. Given a day […]
I Came for the Mystery
Life is this changing thing that can’t be grasped too hard. I fall down, not like a leave. I fall down like a weight. There’s one loud thump and I’m back in the past like a good memoir writer returning to the page every day. People make fun of trigger warnings or maybe they think […]