Prescription for Humanity: The Overview Effect? Would all of us truly become changed,  better people    if we saw the earth from space?Enamored with everything…  prone to fits of hugging…    with startling clarity of thought?What if astronauts are just   inherently    the best of us –  extraordinarily generous souls    with open minds […]

  Always a spark but never a flame ideas float off in the night always on benches but not in the game without heat to stay alight   No catalyst does its work on its own it cries out for interaction some fertile fuel to sustain the burn igniting a vivid reaction   Always a […]

Spring has not yet sprung here. Crocuses and daffodils are only just starting   to test the bitter air    with tentative green fingers, as branches scrape against the gray woolen sky. With the snow melted from all but the shadiest patches,   there is more to see on my morning walk.   I peer […]

I love you, dear Joe —  Your expectations are low,   as they need to be at my awaking. You never hurl questions  or even suggestions   that cheerfulness I should be faking. You have no demands –  you just warm my hands   and straighten the neurons all jumbled, Help me tune out the […]

That time I missed your birthday   I never believed the date could          just       slip              by without demanding my focus –   a big red crayon circle     on my mind’s calendar – A call to action,  as if my   […]