GOLD AT THE END OF THE POEM

 

Robert Bly believed gold in a fairytale presaged a happy ending. I believe for poetry too.

 

OCEANS

 

We come from the ocean—our water mother. The more we feel her, protect her both outside us and inside us, the more whole we become and the more we support life on our planet.

My poem OCEANS from our book, EVERYDAY MERMAID.

My poem OCEANS from our book, EVERYDAY MERMAID.

 

Happy Mother's Day

 

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you who have mothered in any way. My wish is that in the burgeoning #MeToo Movement that “mothering” gets as much respect as all the other issues we are fighting for.

A Woman’s Joy. From our book Everday Mermaid.

A Woman’s Joy. From our book Everday Mermaid.

 

Announcement! Announcement!

I am excited. Everyday Mermaid, our poetry art book, is now available online.

The digital landscape brings both a magical luminesce and a closer look at the tactile cut, layered, and stitched fabric art cradling the poems. The book is now available online and as a digital download through a thousand flowers®.  The synergy of these different viewing options creates a new exploratory artwork.

This is our way of celebrating April’s National Poetry Month.

Get your copy:  www.athousandflowers.org

 

New Work in Process: Staged lyric poem/Play

Surprise surprise! Rewriting a staged lyric poem/play I wrote over 15 years ago: Drowning in the Same Sea: Thirteen Conversations in the Hereafter with Emily Dickinson and Saint Francis.

Here is my process over 2 weeks reworking 1 paragraph. All changes have to work in moment of conversation and with the rhythm and thru line of the play. whew!! I won’t really know until I have finished the whole play and sat with it.