Somewhere There’s a Someone

"Helen could never find the right one, but has she this time?"

As the mountain train climbed slowly approaching the rockier beginnings of the mountain, Helen was enraptured by looking out at the green pastures shining in the sunlight. She had the usual stirrings of anxiety and expectation. Almost the same curiosity...

A River We Can’t Cross

"Lovers who can't reach each other"

A river is between us--too deep and dark and swift to swimand not be swept away.We do not know the river’s source,but there it is--sometimes calm,sometimes raging from a storm.We see each other on our shores,busy in our lives.We wave...

A Personal Ad

"Placng a personal ad and wondering what you're doing"

What was I thinking when I placed that ad, “man seeking woman.” Was I going mad? I never did a thing like that before, but suddenly I opened up the door I’d closed and hung myself out on the line,...

From Poems of Farewell: To Sleeping Beauty

"The prince longing for Sleeping Beauty waits outside her tower"

For all these years—has it been a hundred yet,you’ve slept in a tower high above the world.No one could crawl through these thorns,these vines,these obstaclesto wake you.I’ve come before--not even knowing you--and stood here by this wall,looking up,straining for some...