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My Aunt Ethel could stop a stampeding herd of elephants by placing her hands on her hips and snorting, Oh Please. Who wouldn’t be silenced, shamed, swallowing the words that threatened to break loose from a parched throat?   Oh Please. Enemies? What’s with enemies? Who are your enemies? Who did you so bad you didn’t … Continue reading enemies

I longed for a soulmate. I confessed this to my soul many years ago on a night when the sky was a blackboard and I wrote my wishes upon it. She looked up from her knitting, her large jungle green eyes. Aren’t I enough? Well, I said, kind of, but you know, I get cold … Continue reading besotted and bedazzled

Peace lies broken, her wings crushed under the weight of tanks. The old hollow words of peace on earth good will towards men will not raise her up, will not put wind under her so that she might fly again with the olive branch and a promise of renewal and hope restored. Because peace lies … Continue reading new prayers

When my mother locked the front door of my childhood home for the last time, she might as well have doused it with kerosene and lit a match. Every report card and award that said how smart I was, every pencil line on the door frame marking my growth, every homemade valentine my little hands … Continue reading home

I am walking a labyrinth with a seashell pressed to my ear. I am sand flowing through an hourglass. I see my great grandmother in a burning village. I hear the Cossacks ride in and begin to shoot. She is folding an origami bird, a white dove that she casts upon the winds and water. … Continue reading the holy ground of sorrow