Three Love Poems
Consortium Up before you, I hear your shuffle down the morning hall, the clearing of your throat, and my head turns of it’s own accord, trained by years of practice, and I’m looking for your…
Before the Poetry Reading
BEFORE the POETRY READING I want to thank God, goddess, fate, those who work in the otherworld office of lifespans where decisions are made— perhaps before we are born— about just how long we’ll slosh…
MelindaJanuary 22, 2026
The Only Reasonable Light
image by Melinda, "Shekinah" Oh, there is so much pain in this peopled world, and I dare say the majority of it is delivered to humans by other humans. I don’t pretend any circumstances will…
MelindaJanuary 15, 2026
The Bus Stop Moms and Me
Hello, Today I'm sharing a short reading from my collection, "Little Pockets of Glow". Bus Stop Moms is a snapshot into my life in the slower lane of parenting my wonderful daughter who lives with…
MelindaDecember 5, 2025
The Them that’s a We
Body Preach The neck spoke first: The muscles here— so tight with the shoulders in a way the grandmothers— who lay down with toil and breathed the breath of labor, laboring,— in a way that…
MelindaSeptember 2, 2025
When Your Dragonfly Grew
My friend, the artist Marina Powdermaker, would have turned 64 next week. I can't quite believe it's been 5 years since she left. It is for us—those left living—to honor our beloved dead by telling…
MelindaAugust 22, 2025
Reach for the Bus Crayon
The Bus Crayon There will be a morning you won’t reach for the black rectangle with the white apple on its face. You won’t instruct your finger to slide…
MelindaJuly 30, 2025
Of Birds and Blueberries
Writing can be therapeutic, but it's work nonetheless. Sending woven words out into the world to be judged is a practice in growing thicker skin. For every published piece there are dozens of rejections. Though I've…
MelindaJuly 21, 2025
Woman, Circle, Poem
Late May greetings! I’ve just had two poems published in a lovely new online magazine, “Soul Poetry, Prose and Art”. Here’s the link if you’d like to check out the magazine. It's filled with…
MelindaMay 22, 2025