Sonnet to Old Women’s Wisdom

  It can’t be boxed, the way knowledge is. It lives in experience, in the living and learning from a...

Call to My Cronies

Crony: from Greek khronios, ‘long-lasting’ I’m 75. And surprised! I invite you to my wildness. Are you old? Lucky you....

Rasping

Rasping

Before growth comes rasping, an itch, a rub, a sloughing of skin. Irritation! A snake against the bark, peeling and...

photo by Susa Silvermarie

Un Día Mas

Un día mas, I say to my neighbor, Iréne. She stands outside her tienda, sweeping the sidewalk in the predawn...