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There’ll be a day my boy becomes a man; imposing wonderment inside a narrow line− beyond the road that disappears ahead, one path where truth and reverie entwine more challenging than mommies dare to say as disappointment looms in evening’s sky where once a wish was made upon a star, if only it were easier… and I am just a girl beneath this mother’s form where miracles have flourished in […]

Two Spacewalking Astronauts He’d had a dream, come looking for us, maybe but we three could no longer fit in a double, so they’d traded.   The switch must have happened when I was asleep, in a dream of a whole other story, for when I turned half-circle in my trench, there lay a smaller, ropier version of my husband— little head, my coloring, gracing the pillow.   In a […]

Charming young boy, with the huckleberry smile, and barefoot manners.   Such bright-eyed brilliance, in wild summer days, and carefree hours.   Nothing unexplored, each small landscape, calling for fresh adventure.   Swift, shining child, flying through sunlit fields, dancing on butterfly breezes.   Be still for a moment, listen to the rustle, of wind swept branches.   Nature’s ancient voice, speaking through rushing rapids, singing a prairie poem.   […]

Large mop of black curls perched on her left shoulder Face a blush red White T-shirt clinging to her bosom She tightened her clutch around my waist As the motorcycle Veered into the next bend Peering over the windshield the night hung on the mountains like a black Velvet curtain Lightning tore across the night sky as the bike lurched forward toward the Monsoon Daisy whispered into my ear in […]