Let It Rain

Photo by Scott Olson I end this month of poetry with the lyric to a song I wrote years ago. It is unrecorded and I’ve rarely performed it. I thought of it on a recent trip back to Iowa. Although much has changed since I left, there is something about the vast skies and horizons […]

Words and Rhyme

Abu Malek, chemical attack survivor, in the Ghouta town of AinTarma, Syria. Photo by Reuters. Words   In full throat we once cried plaintive notes that lift the tide and mothers coo and fathers weep and all we do is steal their sleep   And then we astound and form a word a more precious sound […]