on Halloween, some
of the scariest faces
are under the masks

is it a melting
pot or bizarre eyeballs?
art keeps us guessing

If only this old
doorway in New York could talk,
what stories we'd hear

sometimes I'm crabby
but it's hard to be this far
away from the sea

every so often
learning a new mad skill puts
my feet on the ground

it's complicated
but you really don't need to
understand it all

lately, lost in my
head is where I've been, trying
to know where to turn

with a heavy head
we bid our final good-byes
and welcome autumn

all I could think of
was to try leap frog but my
daughter shook her head,
looked at me with disgust
or disbelief
and said don't you dare,
Mom,
I'm going to count to three
and you will come
to the car with me
and try to behave

sometimes it's no fun
being the grown up

if I could just patch
all of the holes in your heart,
I would have done that

a friendship circle
what goes around comes around
because we're entwined

peculiar and
totally foreign to me
bizarre flowers thrive

exotic flower
or extraterrestrial
squid? man-made wonder.

warning, the sign said:
if you fall in you will die

apparently, some were prepared
to meet their Maker
but me, always choosing
the high road,
decided I couldn't fall in,
so I stayed behind the fence,
at the top of the hill,
at least until
until I had a chance to
go to confession

patching, patching, it's
what I do, what I do best
when my hands are tied

have you ever gone
somewhere strange and far away
ignoring dangers?

contemplating whales,
how in the world could I want
to return inland???

caught between a rock
and a hard place, wondering
why is it so hard?

His attention to
detail, His design and line:
simply perfection

every so often
I feel taller than I am;
but then I look up

sometimes it seems that
spoken words don't really make
us the most evolved

as if for the first
time, my eyes opened and saw
new hope and promise

underwater blooms
iridescent and fancy
slight, graceful movement