A Moche burial site discovered recently in Peru revealed an ancient society thought to be led by queens who practiced ritualistic...

It is raining tufts of rabbit fur and memories in my backyard. Atop the utility pole bunny feet wave “bye bye” as a Harris Hawk tears her...

Late summer morning light paints twelve shades of green on the grass rolling away from the house, in the leaves lifting, turning to faint...

“Do you know me, lovely daughter, little sapling straining upward, hungry for sun, thirsty for rain, all tendrils and folded leaves? Feel...

She roams the oceans under new constellations drifting on small currents testing the luff of her bow against tempest and calm and...

Beware the sound in the darkness, nearly imperceptible, that raises our scalps with its pitchfork. We know what lurks there anxious to...

The sound of tinkling riffles happy to encounter rocks and undermine mountains muffled the damage, masked the scoured river bed. A...

Now is the hour of the deer. The trees unfold twilight fingers towing the stags, the young bucks, the does, and the yearlings from their...

A pile of pale, gray brittle bones pokes at a tarp of too thin skin clouded eyes closed jaw agape sneering lips loose dentures jutting...

Cart trundling down my rutted road behind the tail of destiny’s mare through fields where I have toiled past grasses where I have rested,...

Thru shadow land a dark barque flies. Red dark longing pulses stronger. Winging whispers slice black skies. Impatient lovers wait no...

I left you something. Think of it as a souvenir. Something to help you remember … that night in the dark when you came out of nowhere and...

A Pantoum For Andrea Bocelli 1 Why didn’t God give you eyes, 2 trusting, heroic, handsome man? 3 Standing,...

Slumbering, lumbering spirit bear awakening from nightmares of persecution roars in confusion and anger. The solitary hunter wreaks havoc...

Two fingers of tequila in the jar ripple to “New Year’s Day” on repeat. The blue plastic mermaid, arms akimbo on the jar rim, dips her...