Recent Stories
Two poems
I watch the trees / as seasons cycle.
Poem: The day after
The tree alone directing us / To peaceful paths / With its symbolic star.
Poem: Getting through another loss
This time, I need the words of a prayer.
Poem Attitude adjustment
Multiculturalism? Well and good. But don't stop there!
Two prose poems
I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours.
Poem: Words
They tumble forth.
Poem about light
You can try to strangle light.
Death barged in
He has been here ever since.
Totem games
Guess who I am.
Poem: Bad news in the ER
'Your son was at a concert when he collapsed.'
Poem: Rain on water
The sky echoes the underwater world.
Four haiku
Natural moments in seventeen syllables.
Poem for an inked daughter
A mother reaches across the generations.
Poem: Those days
Summer memories.
Poem: Kingfisher
Feeding the birds.
A ritual is born
Once, twice, ritual!
Poem: Flowering
Grow a life here.
That was I
A poem from U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser's Pulitzer prize-winning book.
Homecoming: A sequence of poems
Poems about Africa.
Interview with Everett Hoagland
UU poet influenced by Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka.
Passover: A meditation
The terrible blessing of the journey.
Just cause
A line is crossed.
