Poetry

Flirtation by Rita Dove

After all, there’s no need to say anything at first. An orange, peeled and quartered, flares like a tulip on a wedgewood plate Anything can happen. Outside the sun has […]

Poetry

Home

Sighing fir trees overshadow it. Met the marshmallows-covered sky. Sidewalks curve around a place. Green slopes dotted with daisies. Streets are quiet until cars backfire. Darting bees honey like flowers. […]

Poetry

DingBats

DingBats Dinging together right now. We are right. Dinging along. Life works easily. Bang!  

Poetry

Cactus

Spiny cactuses cover the hillsides like fir trees. I gaze. Oh my, why so many?” A girl from the Pacific Northwest who’s used to seeing the hills covered with dark […]