My partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow/ but all I want to do is marry them on a beach that refuses to take itself too seriously. Overtime I have learned that a love is most astonishing/ when it persists after learning where we com...

The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.  bell hooks We just celebrated Mother's Day in the United States. Moth...

I'll tell you a half-dozen things/ that happened to me/ in Indiana/ when I went that far west to teach./ You tell me if it was worth it./ I lived in the country/ with my dog— part of the bargain of coming./ And there was a pond/ with fish from, I t...

I felt my life with both my hands/ To see if it was there - I held my spirit to the Glass,/ To prove it possibler -// I turned my Being round and round/ And paused at every pound/ To ask the Owner's name -/ For doubt, that I should know the Sound -//...