Where Your Ashes Now Lie

                                     I pass through the gate
                                     where your ashes
                                     now lie

                                     the lilacs you planted
                                     in bloom
                                   



Photo by Julie Mihaly

At the Kitchen Table

                       ... the exotic birds, thought to be safe in the barn, were not 

                                                 ... from my back porch bedroom / I hear my father at the kitchen table

          ... my mother's soft and soothing words

                 



Photograph by Marc McLeod