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…
To hell, to hell with this dry well
(To confront writers block, she) Mixed metaphors. Now I understand it was never about the others. Not their timeline, their values. Not the scripts we were fed about how to be and behave in this…
MelindaDecember 2, 2025
On Turkeys and Traffic and TIme
I'm taking a break from promoting my new book this morning to extoll the power of a pause. We humans do tend to plow into the middle of things in our self-important haste to get…
MelindaOctober 23, 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
When I am Ash
To hear me read this post, click below. Hello you! I’ve had a new poem published in the inaugural issue of Harrow House Journal. This was one of the rare pieces that arrived almost completely…
MelindaJuly 2, 2025
When God is a Bird
This one is for the mothers. When God is a Bird The feeders out back bring more color this month— goldfinches blossoming from marsh-like greeny gray to forsythia yellow, a red-winged blackbird flashing…
MelindaMay 11, 2025
Through the Window
Through the Window New buds adorn the ratty something-or-other bush. Does it mind being unnamed? No, comes the echo of an answer. My life outside your window does not revolve around what you might call…
MelindaApril 21, 2025
April is…..
April is Autism Awareness Month and also National Poetry Month, two topics about which I am passionate. I ought to have lots to write and say and post, but here we are almost two thirds…
MelindaApril 19, 2025
Hope is a brief scatter of diamonds
Listen to me read this here: Hello friend. I can see you are despondent. Please, come this way. I want to show you something. Stand here. A little closer. Turn your head just so, look…
MelindaFebruary 21, 2025