She wanted to turn around and walk back to the time she first said yes instead of no, smiled crooked smiles and spoke in opposites so that true ... Read more
A Missing Child
Unique A creation like no other perfect made A snowflake fresh fallen gently held still in her palm Disappeared melted to a single tear a mother ... Read more
A Woman Who Can Tell
A woman who can tell her true age can do anything. But there is more: to find home in the silent house, to not fear the mirror, to make love in the ... Read more
Always
She sat sewing on the verandah not alone; in those days a chaperone was present at all stages of courtship, from the early mating display to the ... Read more
An Angel’s Heart
Have you seen the Angel, with pure white softened wings? Watched her dance among the clouds or heard the song she sings? Her words will sing of ... Read more
An Early Winter
You've survived the dying of a womb and the severance of four cords, cool summers and pale autumns, and now, as I wipe the ravages of time dripping ... Read more
An Evening of Childhood
An apricot pudding hissed through a steaming cloth while my brothers and I played planets with the contents of the fruit bowl on the kitchen ... Read more
Another Year
I have smiled at all the right times, a broad smile, not clipped, and my jaw aches; but my heart aches more. This is another year of loving you, of ... Read more
Asi se Baila (That’s Dancing)
A night that brings, Flamenco strings, Of rhythmic home-bred Gypsy kings, About the scent' of lemon groves, Paellas steam on village stoves Hemlines ... Read more
At the Pier
What hidden treasures have we yet to hunt down as we travel hand-in-hand through this lakeshore town Ice cream parlors from times long ago long ... Read more
Bad Timing
You'll find no shelter in this heart A house untidy kept Where blood flows free like hapless tears That once rebuffed old lovers wept. My soul its ... Read more
Beautiful Soul
I watched her stand with hands on hips, her grey eyes wide and nostrils flaring, indignant look on her pretty face, pouting lips mouthing words so ... Read more
Black Man Jack
Upon a hill Upon a time A man of rhythm Lost his rhyme Demon people Draped in white Set a crucifix Alight Tortured screams His desperate shrill Upon ... Read more
Blue Rain
The night is old and a yawning moon waits patiently for clandestine lovers to return to beds of stone. They sleepwalk over years, weightless, weaving ... Read more
Bonds
I'd often thought of him, no one forgets their first kiss; it leaves a permanent stain on the lips. So when he rang it took only a moment to recognise ... Read more
Carousel Dreams
Walking on past the crisp winter beach Ahead loomed a building well within reach Old not deserted with hints of Huck Finn We wondered what ... Read more
Causatum
Your words swallow my breath creates a feeling that becomes knotted on the inside of my neck flushing the blood away until it's lost leaving my ... Read more
Close
The one she holds tonight is not the right one. She does not give herself to him even as he presses into her hesitation. This is a silent stranger who ... Read more
Coming Home To Myself
What is this strange reunion, this homecoming to someone I did not know I had left? Bittersweet, it’s hard to separate the joy of returning to ... Read more
Day And Night
At night it seems some holy thing. Large, monolithic, as mysterious and knowing as some ancient mythology. It will plunge you into your own forbidden ... Read more
Fingers of Gold
Golden fingers dance your dance; on maple and rosewood. A dance of war? A dance of love? Conquer barren ears of sterile souls. Each string quivered ... Read more
Flowers Talk
I saw a country garden stretching as far as the eye could see; Woven in the landscape, coloured jewels grew naturally. Angels had kissed each ... Read more
Fusion
He calls himself selfish when he steals air from my lungs breathing my strength in and out for his survival and I try to make him believe that his ... Read more
Getting Up
Hear distant bell go back to sleep on the surface not too deep Fight all thoughts give a deep groan Carpe diem? Painful moan Peel open eyelids unfold ... Read more
Going
You needn't stay my darling. Love, like trees, marks time in rings. A petal falls in a silent dusk. Nostalgia wells for the gone by. Even as we live ... Read more
Help Yourself to Happiness
Everybody, everywhere seeks happiness, it's true, But finding it and keeping it seem difficult to do. Difficult because we think that happiness is ... Read more
His Grief
When I was told she was gone I was stunned into silence, but it was only a moment before I let it escape; the weeping and wailing that was dammed in ... Read more
How We Didn’t Tell Her
that the housekeeper said that the gardener said that someone named Jean or Jeannie or Jenny who was his friend or maybe his boss had said ... Read more
It Could Have Been Me
I was the one who noticed him first, We were strolling along, just talking; Of course we had good reason to stare, The crab like way he was ... Read more
La Haine
It starts as a small little thing, indignation at a trespass, anger, having been wronged. It grows into a flag, parading first down small ... Read more
Labor Night
Her world is upside down, waiting for the baby. She paces in the night and sleeps the day. She has cleaned every corner of the house, rearranged ... Read more
Medicine Wheel
The doctor gave me my ticket and I had my grandson drive me to the bus station didn't need a book to read just long hazy naps with the sun on my face ... Read more
Moonlight Encounters
We live in two worlds, Some would say, not far apart Each star shining brightly in the sky above As evening approaches with her cerulean hues Our ... Read more
Mountain Friends
There was a picture upon the gallery wall that critics met with silent tongue. Children paused in comfort, while people gazed where love had long ... Read more
Native Ground
It is embarrassing for a girl from Connecticut, raised properly in a proper Christian home, with a good suburban education, to find sex and speak ... Read more
Nebraska (Acrostic)
Nearer wish my Eyes could be to Beauty's rare Reality Across the wide and open Sea resides a Kindred friend Adored by me Copyright © 2002 Terry ... Read more
New Sea
She has watched herself move beyond sad into the realm of desperation, where her need snarls against his. She has moved beyond remembering her former ... Read more
Night Tears
There is a crying that happens at night that does not come while the light is with us. There are things that cannot be evaded once the sun goes ... Read more
No Victory
With the dawn in retreat as the sun kissed her skin, the soldier of love spoke of conflict within. Of songs discontented mistaken in tune, a universe ... Read more
Oatmeal
It's hard not to think of you as I stand at the stove stirring oatmeal looking out over the lake. The morning sun touches the water rippled by the ... Read more