SELECTED POEMS

haiku for you

Spring in North Carolina

Rustle of the Leaves

To Mom, One Year On

A Box for Susan

When Covid Is Over

Just Care

Some Things I Know

Thank You to Sue’s Donor (Day 101)

Focus on the Future (Day 28)

Caregiver Caretaker (Day 4)

Heartsick (or on the transplant list) (40 days before the call)

An Old New Love (64 days before the call)

This Day

Sentinel

My Dog’s Ear

Saturday Chores

Winter Dog Walks

I Choose You Again and Again

Thanksgiving After Helene

Solo Sailing

Siblings

If I Had A Sister

I Come From

Carve. Salt. Taste. Go!

You

Ready to Enjoy Today

Aging

Ode to a Superfood

Oh, Joanie (My Aunt has died)

Dimming of the Day

We Go On

Dancing in the Kitchen

I Love You Will Have to Do

Ring of Fire

Absent Father

Missing My Mom on Father’s Day

Things I Know

Back Into the Room

Canopy

Mom Loved

I Miss My Mom

Joan

Retirement During the Age of Corona Virus

NatGeo Out My Window

Family

Felony Dammit (or growing old is a crime)

Almost Broken Home

Lessons from Laramie

Softening & Mom’s Old Room
(2 poems on grief’s journey)

Ode to the Common Hackberry

Dogwalk

Please

Eavesdropping from My Porch

My Lonely is a New Puppy

‘Rona, Week 35

My Mom’s Hands

Big Bag of Pills

25th Week of Lockdown

Not Ready

Morning on the Lake

Am I a Bird Watcher?

Ready for Guests

14 Months

14 Weeks in Lockdown

Mamma!
(2 poems: My Mother & George Floyd, Dying Declaration)

Love Song

Day 49 (covid lockdown)

Headwaters

Pomp and Circumstance for Avi

What I’m Looking Forward To

All the Emotions

Lockdown Love Song

Dandelion

Keeping Our Distance

Body Surfing Through Coronavirus

Things I Think I’ll Learn During Quarantine

Ripe Mango

Look At Me

A Perfect World