Swing

I'm in my 40s and I still love to swing on a swing...

Marbles

This short prose piece was inspired by a prompt to write about a body part.

Steps Counter

This short prose piece started with a prompt about change and "moving on".

Here

The image of a cat's stray whisker led to this poem...

#beautiful

A weird little vignette practicing voice, scene, and dialogue...

Goddesses

I'm always astonished at how several threads often braid together in life. In this case, reading Joseph Campbell's "Goddesses", plus a couple of conversations that didn't seem connected at the time have me thinking about where I "fit"...

Addiction

You don't always (ever?) know what you're getting with the person you fall in love with...

Home as kitchen utensil

This poem came from prompt to compare two random things...

Space

Prompted to write about noticing something beautiful, this is the first thing that came to my mind...

I should have lit the candles

If there's one thing I've learned in life and yet never seem to really learn, it's that you should always light the candles...

Lucky Charms

An excerpt from Amanda Gordon's poem, "The Hill We Climb" got mixed in my head with Sarah Everard's murder, which reminded of Ardeth Wood close to home, and then this poem came...

Quantity

What do you worry about? All the things I worry about are quantities...