Fire fairies

Fire fairies rise in a ring around the volcano’s smoking crater. They dance in a wild frenzied circle. Time and …

Medusa

The serpents Wrathful, writhing, appeared slowly One or two or three at a time In response to extreme provocation. First …

Poem for our history

Is there something that stitches together broken people with no common history Except that of being lost of free falling …

Beyond the pale

As to the pale: please note: the pale is exile. and beyond the pale, beyond is beyond exile into – …

albatross

There were too many things left to do and not enough time to do them. I made many lists and …

Blue room

Today I will look for my indigo fabric; the two bundles of indigo that I bought at the Houston Quilt …

sugar

Perhaps I have been too kind and that is the excuse I offer for the delay in the telling, for …

In my sewing room May 16

Sitting in my sewing room surrounded by towers of thread, various stacked plastic bins of quilt fabric, patterns and cloth …

thoughts on paper 3/14

I am starting a new project and a journal is required. We live in a world where this conjures a …

Journey

at the end of the journey a calm descends small gifts are acknowledged in  the book of your life. larger …