My poem, the beggar wretch, was published this morning in Altered Reality Magazine, an online speculative fiction / poetry / arts publication. Something a little dark to kick off the new year!
Wordless Wednesday
Daily Prompt: Reducing Clutter
Where can you reduce clutter in your life?
Slowly, too slowly perhaps, I’ve come to realize that surrounding myself with toxic family members has done nothing to enhance my quality of life. Shoo! Gone! Finit!
Clutter, reduced. Peace of mind, restored.
dumbfounded
I will never understand this mindless orange, autocratic, narcissistic attraction…
frigidity
Iowa’s politburo
gathers ‘round
mittened hands
frozen feet
still close
cell-phone chats
with my son
post-pandemic
camaraderie
Silent Sunday
from the Word Garden
Freaky Friday
january storms
eleven inches on the ground
paying for our mild December
more snow predicted
A Sawyer's Daughter 
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