Some enchanted evening I won’t still be scheming I’ll be working on the inside Leaving to god the worldwide I’ve opened up negotiations I’ve made deep collaborations With my sad self With the cheeky elf With the child who couldn’t hear Cos nothing she ever heard Made her feel she was there. Did you ever…

Riding our hearts As if they weren’t as delicate as daffodils In the snow, Maybe our own natural Anti-freeze Wind wisps Barreling Dust storms- All across This template Given long ago- Spring is sacred geometry- It points forward and inward and outward PI x 2 squared (we all want a simple formula) Hypotenuse Of a…

Cold beer and country music It will make you remember It will make you forget Old lyrics and old lines Will break your heart And mess with your mind Memories of The way your body moves As the band slows to an easy groove The intimacy as our bodies come together And move as one…

Negative side Coming alive Inside Becoming conscious Can’t hide in a Fluffy cloud Shroud Covering up the Darkness Black Fishing in the Deep dark Attack Can’t have a Sinking ship Self- forgiveness Experiences Balances Maintaining the truth Within Begin again.

A feelgood boost From connection Depth Honesty A touching exchange Based on morphemes The smallest meaningful unit Of a language Building words To phrases To sentences To texts To stories A structure that can be used To say something But still nothing at all Emptiness When a sparkle of the soul and heart is added…

High on the mountain where the eagles soar I gaze down upon the distant desert floor. A cool breeze gently flows over my face With what could be described as a flair of grace. The pines stand tall against the sky Connecting to the clouds, floating so high. Cardinals are plentiful, the sparrows are few.…

Sleepless, nights. The sun and the moon shine on you, light still restlessness, thoughts Haunting, dreams. Simple things , become huge when one is alone . One becomes weak, although Sees some strengths, in who she is. She can not wrap up the Past in a pretty box, nor can she pretend That history doesnt…

I impersonated a straight person every day for many years Black people don’t have that option Is there a shortcut to my humanity? Can I carve my way through coldhearted apathy To find the antedote to bigotry my own and others Somebody help me please To no longer be a bystander Gagged and silent When…

(Dedicated to Frank and Bernie – together for 42 years -on the day off Frank’s Celebration of Life) The hole in my heart, the place I have cried a million tears The beach I have walked alone as I wept. There are places I will travel, to be held in the silence of missing you…