Lara’s Hands
My friend Lara Hall is an orthopedic nurse, an exercise instructor and a masseuse. She knows all the muscles and ligaments and tendons and bones …
Today Is Your Birthday
I walk by your desk.
I walk past you in the hall.
I’m pretty sure you don’t know me at all.
Fruit Pizza
My friends are the hem.
The next circle’s uncles, aunts, cousins and kin.
They orbit my brother, dad, sisters, and mother-
circles in circles in circles within.
Next Week Is Your Birthday
I could write about procrastinating. But wait. I have to go to the post office …
Cat on Her Birthday
My tail leaves a trail of elegant catness
My dangerous eyes are a light shade of green
It takes work to maintain my sinuous fatness
Though I may look youthful, today I’m thirteen.
Because Your Birthday
Because I put on winter underwear, a purple turtleneck and a magenta ski jacket and went for a walk hoping to find some stuff to make a way cool card for you …
Spring Dog Dreams
Today while the sun and the clouds chase about,
and the wind is a mousy mild,
four puppies and I, we fly through the fields
while the trees stand single-filed.
My Bike’s Name is Mortimer
The best thing about him (besides his name)?
Uncle Davie and Me
I started, this morning, by writing whatever came out of my brain…here’s a sample of the Alice-in-Wonderland-ness of it all …
Dayenu
I have been thinking a lot about the word Dayenu, which we hear each year at the Passover seder.