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...

photography by Susa Silvermarie

Poetry of Prayer

I lost count of the number of churches I’ve visited in Italy, the way one goes to museums to view...