Big butts are a thing these days. A decade ago Jennifer Lopez made that abundantly desirable and recently Nicki Minaj sang to the world that Sir Mix-a-lot was not lying, packing much back, like Kim Kardashian, is attractive. As someone...

I like you Ask me why Because you make me laugh until I cry Because you’re quiet, calm and shy Because you feel the need to please Because with you I get knobbly knees Because your eyes are distant blue...

A sea of bubbles in my bathtub Expanding like a restless wind Into more shapes A deer A mountain A recessed cavity filled with yesterday’s secret Now revealed Now no more news I part them with my fingers A small...

These trees are bare, the sun bouncing off their arms like golden thread The ground is cold Damp Puddled with desire for another day Of warmth, brief passion Flitting hope These trees, they know how things move Change Risk faith,...

I searched for you in many places Under the ancient roots of solid trees Hidden soft Between the powdered wings of dragonflies I didn’t find you in the brush of a lover’s kiss Nor in a baby’s needy touch Did...

these hands have lines these crooked ridges running across my palms bending with each of Life’s little visits where it knocked at my door and I turned to answer its guest with my solid hands one runs from the tips...