Some Things I Know
Farm House Magazine and Anthology
when you are being interviewed for television
speak slowly and look directly at the reporter
pretend the camera is not there
most people are in a hurry
you cannot stop your friends from dying
but you can hold them and repeat their names
faux Buddhas and elephants hold up the sky
at the Oriental movie palace (1927) on
Milwaukee's East Side
loss is universal
ducks travel past my window
now that the lily pads are gone
Poetry Publications
"Songs of Peace," poem, 1,000 Pieces of Peace 2018
"Heal," Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing 2016
"The War," poem, HIV Here and Now Project 2015
"Slumber," Red Bird Chapbooks, Broadside Project 2014
"City," Intimate Landscape, Open2Interpretation Book 2012
"What I Brought Home from San Francisco," Edge of Water,
Open2Interpretation Book 2012
"Cowgirls," "Flapping Between the Hands," Her Mark Calendar,
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago 2004, 2010
"In Flight," Saint Paul Sidewalk Poetry, MN 2009
"Some Things I Know," Farm House Magazine & Anthology
2008, 2009
"Newsreel," Out of Line – Peace and Justice Anthology 2008
"Lament," Lunarocity, New Mexico Journal 2007
"War Stories: An Alphabet Poem," Poets Against the War 2006
"Midnight Blue," A View from the Loft – Le Poeme finalist 2003
"A Message to Beijing," Seeing the World through Women's Eyes -
Book of poems inspired by the UN’s 4th World Conference
on Women, Beijing, China (preface) 1996
Midnight Blue
A View from the Loft – Le Poeme finalist
blue widow spiders climb
precariously close,
blue cabs shimmie
past
where you are standing,
a woman
pinned with a cobalt
letter screams
above the blue din of a
newspaper print shop,
five girls put on
lipstick in a baby blue
bedroom,
a knot of boys hit blue pins
at the dark end of a bowling alley,
blue grasshoppers pray
in the hills, blue hope
in a man's heart
as he writes a long essay,
blue
bath water waiting, blue suds
two people
make love in a bed of blue.
Poetry
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