Welcome, Winter!
Solstice 2016 On this, the shortest day of the year in my part of the world, I have a confession to make. I’ve been swirling, these darkening days, around and around like a pile of…
CHASING A CHEESE BALL MOON
December, Massachusetts This time of year in New England, it’s pitch dark at 4:30pm. I’m working on accepting this gracefully, though I do stray from intention a few times a week into cursing-the-darkness mode. Last…
MelindaDecember 17, 2016
Important Things
Almost 8 am, a Wednesday on a highway east of where most live, a man slowed his big semi to an almost halt. 8 am attracts the big crowds on a weekday, busy highway…
MelindaNovember 27, 2016
Dear November
Dear November, It is a month of tributes to poetry, 30 poems in 30 days in some circles. So, being a bit amiss, Miss Construed, I write a letter instead. You are special…
MelindaNovember 4, 2016
Autism Nation
Autism Nation My same different daughter at twenty three years, is riddled with anxiety and complicated fears Loose beads with holes -- they should be on a string! -- and thunder and lightening, that power…
MelindaSeptember 27, 2016
Love letter to the morning
Love Letter to the Morning There is much they don’t know. Our history, the ways we cleaved together and then peeled apart. How you went on without me, blithely, and I mourned you even when…
MelindaSeptember 14, 2016
Yesterday was a Tall Haired Boy
Bink has the most interesting ways of organizing information. Take the concept of time, for example. Do you know what gender your day was yesterday? Was it long or short haired, or…
MelindaSeptember 3, 2016