Crow, you are so smart With your large cawing voice, Unique and patient in flight Your compact body with long-legs and thick neck a heavy, straight bill. with broad, rounded wings and wing-tip feathers that spread like fingers I am amazed at your fine body you have not a speck of any other color – [...]
Jodi outside, tough as nails Brightly colored tattoed skin Jodi inside, soft as silk Never nurtured by mother’s milk. Hurt by life, this child of pain Hurt by those whose love she’d gain. Battered, beaten, bruised and torn By those around her she was scorned. She tries her best to be fierce Her toughness hides [...]
the hardest part of growing older is the loss one suffers. it may be parents, lovers, or friends. the deep sadness that never really goes away the missing, the longing, and the thinking of what could have been. so many once known and loved become memories instead of being there with us. the hardest of [...]
Holly trees are rarely allowed to grow to their full height of sixty-five feet and are instead trimmed down as hedges or ornamental bushes. I am a Holly Tree. Many of us are Holly Trees. As strong women – women whose voices want to shout out to the world – women who have a really [...]
salmon swims from her memory long forgotten, never known all she knows is she must be there. driven to a place returning as ancestors before generation after generation. called home once more alive – alert – swift riding on her memories ancient as time is this what I feel in my yearning? my own bones [...]
