Sacred Plains
“It’s easy to love a mountain…But the prairie’s charms take more looking.”
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Lone tree, distant, hazy
floating
like a waif
on an ocean of brown prairie grass,
the grasshoppers’ tenor drone surrounds
me in a maze of clamor,
clacking, clicking
over and over,
a companion as faithful as the wind...
Read the entire poem in Seasoned Women
Book
Seasoned Women: A Collection of Poems published by Poet's Choice. Available for purchase at Poet's Choice
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Available at Plenty , Cookeville, TN
Sole Mates: A Collection of Dance Inspired Poetry forthcoming in June, 2026
Poems
(Last 2 years)
The Watchers forthcoming in One Art Poetry
Borne on the Wind published by Quill and Parchment
Greenland published by Novus Literary Arts Journal
Waste, I'm Not a Very Good Story Teller, Awareness, Deep Illusion, Dunnet Head published by The Galway Review
Table for One at the Back of the Club published by Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine
I Think of Her at Sunrise and Dystopia published by The Ekphrastic Review