Mother’s Day

Root Attachment

The poem below from my first book of poems, Undertow, was first titled, Invisible Umbilical. Quite the mouthful to say. I changed it under the advisement of my critique group. Root Attachment means essentially the same thing. The premise of the poem is that you will always be connected to your children no matter how … [Read more…]

Mother’s Day Musing

Although my mother died at the age of 50 from ALS, I’d like to think I am still learning from the lessons she taught me in her short life. In Singing Star, the poem below, I am speaking only to the  sadness of missing her when I was a child. Because of her work she  traveled … [Read more…]