Love Eclipses All

Like lovers attracted by forces beyond their control the sun and moon magnetize.   As they merge, the dusky moon overlaps the persimmon sun— a bite from an apple.   Then darkness— all goes quiet, the robins silent the squirrels still.   Totality.  ...

Love with Impunity

Tentative love, like a bubble blown through a child’s wand. Pop, and it disappears.   It’s like the falling of all daisy petals with one single uttering of “He loves me not.”   Really, love, LOVE, is more like air always present. The more one exhales the...

Love Me

There once was a soul who loved her life so much she wanted to hold onto it.   The Beloved said, “Of course, whatever you want.”   And so she held tightly to her house with its white shutters her dog with his pleading brown eyes her work helping people and...