Writing

Crushes Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Love letter to the morning

Love Letter to the Morning There is much they don’t know. Our history, the ways we cleaved together and then peeled apart. How you went on without me, blithely, and I mourned you even when…

MelindaSeptember 14, 2016

Poem Poetry Uncategorized Writing

Pavement Dream

The cashier in the grocery store knows your secrets. So does the young man who bags your fruit, fish, shampoo, Together in one thin plastic bag Groaning towards the floor as you leave, hastily. If…

MelindaAugust 26, 2016

Autism Bink Parenting Uncategorized Writing

Bink at the beach, watercolor by Melinda THE WHY NOT THEN When my daughter (alias Bink) was younger, sometimes friends or family would say,” Why don’t you write about her?” I was dismissive, back then.…

MelindaAugust 18, 2016

Poem Poetry Spirituality Uncategorized Writing

Between Faith and The Cable News

As far as I can tell, we still revolve, this planet with people sticking out all over it, around the sun. Seems we still burn, and tan, and crops still turn towards something in the…

MelindaAugust 8, 2016

Writing

Not Writing

Doing anything to avoid writing is the hardest work, working these twin dwellings; body and house. Each provides chores; endless spin cycles of exercise, rest, toil, despair. I even find myself talking to my father,…

MelindaJune 12, 2016

Nature Spirituality Uncategorized Women's Issues Writing

On growing and knowing

wisdom tree The older I get the less I know. I woke with these words in my mouth, and they taste both new and true. My birthday has arrived and this one is significant somehow…

MelindaMay 23, 2016

Meditation Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing Yoga

ON SILENCE

Absence of noise It’s not that I enter into this thing called silence. I don't let it in or go out to find it. Silence is my natural state. It’s the vast patience of the…

MelindaApril 28, 2016

Love letter to the morning

Pavement Dream

Write her

Between Faith and The Cable News

Not Writing

On growing and knowing

ON SILENCE

Don't Miss a Post

Navigation

Contact