Poetry

drama poem # 3 on a computer word game I playa teacher her moniker trifioso (her daughter tertiare) told in the chat space that in a college lit class they’d had to write their  own greek tragedy their queen:  hepatitis; – king: diabetes; the  princesses: chlamydia, rosacea;messenger: herpes – he could   move really fast – […]

manzanar poem # 3 when springfield-born kazuko golden recently showed her film on americanconcentration camp manzanar theaudience discussion that followedmoved into racial stereotyping kazukotold us growing up she’d often beenasked – or informed – that she wasoriental – chinese, japanese – “in truth,”she said, “I’m half japanese ancestry half european; my dad’s mom and grandparentscame […]

womens’ rally #2, 1/20/2018at Lincoln’s statue, state capital a toddler’s banner read: I’M AGAINST XENOPHOBIA RACISM – MISOGYNY –HOMOPHOBIA – NAPS! at the inaugural anniversary first day of gop-govt-ga(s)p a thousand of us all ages sexes  colors our pink pussycaps  punctuating the crowd full of fun flame fury inspiration:  all the fem candidates! What the […]

bulls poem #  11 american breeders service thelargest artificial inseminationco in the world is writing itshistory ABS began as wisconsinscientific breeding institute mydad was on the original boardI was a big-eared little pitcherguess who they’re asking for anyremembered early bits! I just wasgiven the A-plus tour of currentAI at the wis headquarters thrustmy feet into a […]

dark and stormy night poem it was a dark and stormynight and all the mutantswere sitting around thecampfire then No-Nosespoke up and said No-Toestell us The Story and thisis The Story he told: it wasa dark and stormy nightwhen our dark and stormyTop-Tweet who took umbrageat anyone and anything andhad The Button on his deskand […]

new year’s poem 2018 when granddaughter cressidaasked what to do I suggested shedraw me some cards get well soonhappy new year etc she went towork produced two before tiringof the task “glad about your dog”“sorry about your cat” I’ve toldyou that before I think – she didn’tdo a new years card I could use ithere […]

Paradox Holidays are portrayed as times ofrejoicing but as we all come to know they are often fraught with grief. It seems appropriate to share this poem again (I used it in 2014) at this anxiousseason. It was written by my mother in1925; I have it in a booklet, Mirrors, that she printed for my […]

nevada trip #2 went to see my great grandsons over from paris they’re being raised bilingual laurent talks to them in french cressida in english but since the parents speak french to each other the kids are basically gallic I tooka batch of books with easy tales “caps for sale” “millions of cats”for more english […]

music poem # 17 just listened twice-through toglen gould playing the goldbergvariations the pleasure isn’t onlyin the bach (I can hear theserendered superbly by wandalandowska) but in glen gould’sthroaty humming – even singing –while he plays – sometimes with themelody sometimes a counterpointyou hear the soul of bachthrough glen gould’s playingyou hear the soul of glen […]

thanksgiving 2017 poem it’s thanksgiving so let’s thinkabout suicide – never far frommy thoughts though I try not todwell on it – my second daughtersays my first daughter told herthe “demon” inhabiting her – she NEVER thought she was ill, only possessed from the outside – anyway she was afraid the demonmight demand she hurt […]

 nevada vist 2017 #1 my daughter and son-in-law havea small homestead, a ranchette,with several bee hives, a bunch of chickens, one pigeon who won’t leave but keeps laying eggs in hopeand two nanny-goats eagerly waiting to be bred by a handsomestud buck he is eager too they meet at a fence corner and nuzzle but […]

poem on me #1 whee! whee! this issue’s on me! withwords by corrine pix by ginny leeI yet haven’t seen them as I pen thesewords but here is a story they neitherhave heard ok let’s abandon rhymewhen I was a kid a newborn calf hada broken leg (her confused mamalikely laid on her) my dad […]