Verse Escape

                    Greetings of the season to all!    During the next few weeks, my aging (2013) computer is going to be gutted, reformatte...

  This Year's Garden     We wanted, we planned for tomatoes and cucumbers, okra, too and three kinds of peppers, basil for the bees, fen...

              The Long Love     Love is a function of distance. So I wrote when your touch was too near; but what long love we have close-he...

      The Music of Birds and Lions If I had to say something about it I would just mention the way your eyes moved thr...

        Fantômes de Versailles (a 55)     Ghosts go hungry at Versailles. 'Let them eat cake,' the custodian mumbles. Marie-Antoinet...

    Chimera When I left all I asked was peace  of the starry void, that every shrewish hope be finally silent  yet after me you sent o...

      Promises          When I was first a woman, a proto-woman, perhaps, I fell into the sin of promising.   A jumbled barter it was of all...

            ".. It is a wheel, the rays /around the sun. The wheel survives the myths/The fire eye in the clouds survives the gods..&qu...