I’m thankful for this blog to share a story, to share a plea.I’m thankful for glowing winds. I’m thankful for jolly mountain tops and dashing streams. I’m… Read more “Gratitude”

To deny a people their human rights is to challenge their  very Humanity- Nelson Mandela The dignity of Justice will come / she will lift up her… Read more “Civil Uprising”

I was ten maybe the girl-next-door was about eight. I remember the smoke circling our house. The flames escape me.  Just that afternoon I pleaded with mom to… Read more “It was 1992:”

  I wish to paint the sky flat-ward that I may climb and tell the heavens to come down – drink her fatty calf and sip a… Read more “A Wish”

My bones are clean on Africa’s couch, I’d left my tears asleep. If I’d wake those traveling tears we’d crossed Boston – cobblestones where our hips are made… Read more “Diaries of Refuge”

The troubles of this world – all consuming blaze/ to exchange these eyes for an intimate sight and return our fears to its depth. “The fire next… Read more “With these eyes I can see:”