I haven't thought of it this way, but thinking about affordable housing and qualifying for it and maybe changing the way I work or will I work these p…
....that when someone I love is hurting, I need do nothing or say nothing other than "what do you need from me?" and it will be interesting to see tha…
We lost the poet Kamilah Aisha Moon last year. In this poem, “Cataracts,” she writes about the cloudy vision many of us will experience as we age. The…
“song at midnight” by Lucille Clifton. This poem has an epigraph at the beginning: “…do not send me out / among strangers” from Sonia Sanchez. brother…
Crossroads, by Louise Glück My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longer I begin to feel a new tenderness toward you, very raw and …
The part of lifedevoted to contemplationwas at odds with the partcommitted to action. * Fall was approaching.But I rememberit was always approachingon…
The Apple Family on Zoom. I missed the middle performance, darn it, but caught the final one tonight. In it, the younger brother who is now the age of…
So I got this text from my daughter MaryAnn, with the comment: More of this kind of thing please! (I must have done somthing right, right?) The Perks …
“My Mother’s Body” Marie Howe Bless my mother’s body, the first song of her beating heart and her breathing, her voice, which I could dimly hear, grew…
