Plumeria

Plumeria

Wafting into my nose, plumeria. Close by in the hammock, I, not prone to swooning, do. Frangipani her Hawaiian name,...

Family Name

Family Name

Belonging’s no goal, only the state of everything. Not a sense or feeling, merely what the stars do in relation....

Tucked Between

Day emerges unhurried as a babe while earth labors to turn. I closely watch but cannot see the changes as...

Ancestor Poet Sappho

I took my lyre and said: Come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument   Although they are...