BONNIE You begin like the rest of us an egg, a sperm join in the womb soft, safe. Cells duplicate each hour of the day differentiate into...

SUPPLY THE NEED The value of quiet, and a quiet place, where the body and depleted soul can droop in privacy; free of stressed...

The Missed Deadline The magazine my wife reads has launched, by the Mother’s Month, a writing contest. A married woman should report...

An instance of myself In a corner of the house, a book containing a fragment of Dante addressed to the universe, the questions he asked...

O My Heavenly Father O my Heavenly Father When You repeat Your Word to me once – It’s necessary. When You quote it twice – I should take...

THANK YOU FATHER! “For God so loved the world, That he gave his only begotten Son, That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, But...

Water Boatmen walk on water. Do not waver like St. Peter. Have no boat to keep in sight but just keep putting one thin thread in front of...

Visual art provided by © Mary Clark I Came into the Forest ~From his new book, Across the Light I came into the forest believing all the...

Your Reflection You love to talk to me in the mirror when I'm putting on my make-up a brilliant piece would come to me a thought or...

Biog Intertextuality of our ideas meet on a spotless page to indite a collaborative effort of strange rhythms and sudden refrains. Images...

Life and Death my tongue murdered a reputation today. slithered from behind my white teeth trampled her life like a withered leaf on the...

The Golden Light I hold the day in my hands, a captive in the golden light while all around me an autumn sky shakes itself loose; a drift...

Promise I can’t promise you that where you go will be easy that there will be a comfortable chair, kind people, or a system that works...

Blessed Giggles float in the breeze warm sunshine kids running free it's summertime Jumping on the trampoline making mud stew ...

When I watch the fires And the destruction around I’m glad I’m still here. *** Sitting home alone I feel so much love for God I feel like...

The Answers When I received the message that she had passed away, A sudden drift of sadness filled my soul With extreme grief, regret and...

A Matter Of Color I am proud of my generation. I came from a past that must only be seen in its black and white. Current bright colors...

Wings As the beating of the wings of birds my mother’s fluttering eyelashes seen with my infant eyes as I studied the face of the first...

Star Roots, Field Work Deep in the August field, I loll with mice and deer and the jawboned lightning playing wild war games all across a...

Straight and Narrow Low o low came You loving Lord narrowly birthed and laid low in a manger– You, wider than all skies. Straight the way...