Between those trees, I first felt it / like dusk or the roil of the astral body down the thumbs-width tunnel between dreams: / The dark horse-bites of men’s glances—For the Love of Three Oranges, November Butterfly (Saddle Road Press, […]
Here is an image of a flower’s flower, replete with “sinuous rills” to borrow from Coleridge (Kubla Khan). We all get to be Georgia in front of a flower, inhabiting her eye for a fractionally inspired …
In good company with many a girl poet of my generation, I remember (at the naïve age of 19) stepping out of the pristine order of Plath’s poetry and circling her life, which really meant …
“…the reverse birth image never left me, of petals, hummingbirds, and Marilyn trying to breathe…”-- Marilyn, Arriving: Collage, Astrology and Poetry (Feral Mom, Feral Writer) November Butterfly (my first poetry collection, Saddle Road Press) comes out …
Literary, gritty musings on the art of raising children and surviving marriage while writing; frequently includes reveries on the writings of other women along a wide spectrum including poetry, prose, film, graphic novels, plays, and …
From Saddle Road Press: November Butterfly Release Date: November 1, 2014 Available on Amazon in paperback ($15.00) or Kindle ($7.99) editions. Also available from Barnes and Noble or Powell's. Or support Saddle Road Press by by coming to one of my Events (workshops/readings) to …
Sculptor Sandy Frank and I have been percolating on this project now since spring of 2009, when she asked me for a handful of poems to pen across her sculpture of a male torso (back in the …
The Fertile Source published photos, artwork, literary essays, poems, fiction, photos and artwork on fertility-related themes. Those themes further include infertility, abortion, miscarriage, and adoption as well as childbirth, pregnancy, birth control, sex, postpartum depression, …
In seeming counter-intuition to the usual process of listening to poetry and allowing each reader to supply his or her own internal imagery, I've been experiementing with making photo poem montages set to music. I've …