Posted in Uncategorized, tagged accomplishments, depression, exhaustion, shoulds, survival on September 1, 2020| 6 Comments »
Today it is enough
to pour the orange juice.
To push down the lever
on the toaster.
To feed the fish and the kids
and water the orchid
and return one call.
A woman could be buried
by all the things
she thinks she should do.
It might take her years
to crawl out from beneath that weight.
And so today
I find refuge in the fact
that I made the bed.
That I was a lap
for a cat.
That I caught a mouse
in the carrot row
and I let him go.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged accomplishments, poem, poetry, weeds on June 15, 2019| 5 Comments »
after pulling thousands of weeds
all I see in the field—
weeds I’ve missed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged accomplishments, poem, poetry, ship on January 13, 2015| 2 Comments »
you the mast, the sail
the wind, the sea itself—
you the hole in the hull