Her Writing
Influenced by:
James Baldwin, Carolyn Forche, Susan Griffin, Linda Hogan and W.S. Merwin.
A Mother's Advice to her Children
Third Place, The Colorado Lawyer Poetry Contest, 2006.
If you ever get the chance, live with an artist.
Live with an artist and you begin to notice
the shapes of things.
Even the air around the enormous
sprig of forsythia
in the beer bottle,
the way its presence
makes the room fade away,
its relationship with the white wall,
its simple canvas.
Restraining Order
First Place, The Colorado Lawyer Poetry Contest, 2006.
I am watching the freckles
on the back of my fingers
multiply and divide like
lovers under the lens. The
speaker at my podium
says: He's my pimp. Tore
a branch from a tree. Beat
me. The branch broke.
Autumn in Five Parts
Selected Poem from What Remains (Turkey Buzzard Press, 2016) published in Colorado Women News July 1993 and Montelibre, 1993.
In early autumn, sunny gusts signal a shift,
the kind of mystery neighborhood crows warn about.
In the garden, the last zucchini lies down with the cucumber,
under an enormous frond.
Quincentenary Poem: Civic Center Park, 1992
Selected Poems from What Remains (Turkey Buzzard Press, 2016) published in Colorado Women News July 1993 and Montelibre, 1993.
One by one they circle the park,
Eagles facing east from
Courthouse columns
Capitol dome
Museum fortress
The glass rectangular offices of industry.
Poetry Is An Act of Love
Selected Poem from What Remains (Turkey Buzzard Press, 2016).
To love a country is to know its poets.
Is there the soul of a human being in there?
Pure uncertainty yearns in a minor key.