Tumbleweeds
bounce across fields
jumping fences
blown every which way
commanded by the wind
Your memory
sweeps across my mind
leaping walls
invading my peace
let in by my traitor heart…
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Oklahoma Roots
Born an Okie
she flies back from time to time
Chicken fried steak
for supper and cold sweet tea
Stars shining clear
from one horizon to the next
Clothes hang on the line
and screen doors slam after company
Oklahoma runs through her veins
like the red dirt runs through the fields
If here is a “home”,
if there are “roots”, if there is “family”
They are found
in Oklahoma…
Patience is reflected in one’s ability to live in the moment…
Changes
People change when you’re not looking…
Sometimes a girl looks the other way…
Beyond Believing
She has moved beyond believing.
Beyond believing
that she is not enough.
Beyond believing
that he will ever keep his word.
Beyond believing
that it’s all her fault.
Beyond believing
that her time has come and gone.
She is believing in the possibilities…
Living Beyond Existing
Each day
a routine
The drive
to and from work
The in between
to pay the bills
He exists
and nothing more
Where is the living?
Sometimes a girl needs a word from God…
Audio Books
She’s taken to
listening to
audio books
in an effort to
feel as if someone
cares enough to
speak to her…
Mama
Christened Edna Jean
raised in a three room shack of a home
The oldest of eighteen
with a taste for brandy alexanders and marlboros
One daughter at sixteen
two miscarriages followed by three
A nightclub dancing queen
with raven black hair and chocolate eyes
Irresistible to a line of
men, one after the other, after the other
Mama
