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Category Archives: Poetry
Release of Hope at the Center
Hope at the Center is now online! Reviews for the collection also are available. Your email: linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;
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not fire quake nor wind
you know i cannot swim yet you chose an island and the sea drowns my voice as i call across the waves do the tides relentlessly hide some reply or is there nothing despite the constant crash of white walls … Continue reading
Fourth of July Meditation
smoking Lights on a Brooklyn stoop cutting grass on Tisdale Avenue climbing stairs of Frederik Lintsstraat watching Grandma die in hospice visiting the grave of Sylvia Plath becoming an optimistic expat gathering at Weris stones reflecting now on summers past … Continue reading
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it is wise…
it is wise to live with open palms for how else may we embrace hands old and new hard and soft how else may we comfort friends near and far lost and found how else may we release … Continue reading
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Aware
A young man began playing piano as I viewed the woodcut “American” by Shaqe Kalaj, we two the only people in the Art Lounge at the University of Michigan Union. We were far from lonely, though, surrounded by voices of … Continue reading
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H@TC Preview
Thanks to Bonnie Bucqueroux from Lansing Online News for video recording the poem “we are trees” from my new collection Hope at the Center! She visited my info table for Sexual Assault Awareness Month at Lansing Community College on Monday, April … Continue reading
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Hope is coming!
Yesterday morning, I watched the sun peek through clouds and tender green on trees, reminding me how spring is a season of renewal. With this spirit, I anticipate sharing my words at “Hope at the Center: Poetry Show” this Thursday, … Continue reading
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Winter Fruit
I look out the second-story window of my home and smile at the snow atop bushes, across lawns, streaking rooftops. I am grateful for this Michigan winter, the season I missed most while in Belgium. Normally Belgian winters are mild, … Continue reading
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HerStories: March 2010
I’ve named a new endeavor of mine The HerStories Project, which kicks off in March to celebrate stories about women during Women’s History Month. If you live in or are near the greater Lansing area of Michigan, be sure to … Continue reading
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nothing of substance
nothing of substance split an irrevocable rift these small things potential chemical cocktails are consequential we are responsible for the ripple behold its reach as the full moon wanes the goddess forewarned but was denied so it is time to … Continue reading
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