Ancestors

In a darkened room at the Museum of Preclassic Civilization in Ostuni, a diorama faithfully represents the burial of a...

For All the Mothers

Julia Ward Howe  put out the first call for a Mother’s Day in protest of the Civil war that had...

Beltane Bounty

In the cemetery on Beltane, spring’s wild burgeoning cavorts with ancestors’ silence and wisdom. Soon dead, I mingle before I...

Talking Wells of Acquaviva

Talking Wells of Acquaviva

I come to where the aquifer remembers my Italian Grandmother. For the sake of healing the traumas of invisibility and...