November 2024
Bio Note: My husband and I ride our “Yellow Beast (recently updated Electric Assist) Mountain Bike Tandem with 15,808 miles recorded and we are still talking to each other. We live in Wisconsin’s Kettle Moraine where I love to hike, bike, write, read, and snowshoe in winter. Once Upon a Tar Creek Mining for Voices (Turning Plow Press) came out in 2021. Broken Blossoms (Fernwood Press) is forthcoming.
at Lake Superior
you stare into a Lake
so blue
you could place all your griefs
into its depths
where they become sand washing
on to shore
where now you rest
find your way to understand
tide in, tide out
how opposites are really one coin
flipping in your pocket
a companion
as you carry on
grateful for this hard, so hard
but still
ever abundant life
Shoes and Souls
the mortician’s family had shoes
lots of shoes
folks talked but come Sundays
they sang loud and clear
in the sweet by and by
and remembered no need for shoes
on that heavenly shore
still it gets you to wonder
if you walk a mile
in another man’s shoes
could you live to know his soul?
maybe even love your brother
as your self?
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