letting go
my daughter’s kite
leaps skyward
Published in 2001 in Linda Robeck's chapbook, "arriving."
spring rain
seeping into everything
the scent of grass
laid off
I turn the car key
the wrong way
New Year’s Eve
explosions of color
in the seed catalogs
autumn light
the roughness
of old stone walls
for KB
four-year-old vows
to marry her daddy -
brightness in his eyes
year in review -
the stuffed dog goes with her
everywhere
looking away these feelings we never talk about
quiet
as the sunrise
yellow violet
loneliness
one flowering dogwood
at the forest’s edge
