Sunday, April 4, 2021

National Poetry Writing Month- Day 4

 Dad's Big Breakfast

It begins raw
offering of appeasement
sausage, bacon, ham
cheese, eggs, hash
on a picnic table cleared of new snow
cooking on a camp stove
wearing gloves, his black down vest
outside our family tent
June in Yellowstone
we had not anticipated winter

Saturday, April 3, 2021

National Poetry Writing Month- Day 3

dreamed of my smile
a dreamy smile
it's been a while

Friday, April 2, 2021

National Poetry Writing Month- Day 2

 Maundy Thursday, April 1, 2021

"I'm dead," you said as Jesus
matter-of-factly, slightly chipper
like a dieter announcing the loss of another pound
"April Fools!" drawled out to three times its natural length

Your Christ is a bunny, hopping hide-n-seek
in/out of his rock-hewn tomb
My Resurrection is an exclamation point 
marking the end of a torturous sentence

Gratitude for laughing at our dichotomies with me

Thursday, April 1, 2021

National Poetry Writing Month- Day 1

 Light-Headed

sweating side-effects
sensationless injection
swooning over next