Category: poetry

  • 2025-04-27 Asked and Answered: Insights from I Ching Hexagram 64

    2025-04-27 Asked and Answered: Insights from I Ching Hexagram 64

    This week I’ve failed to finish (or even start) most items on my to-do list. I had a convo with my work wife, M, about this and we’re both suffering the same paralysis trying to get out of the gate. My mind is spinning and unable to stop long enough to focus on a task,…

  • 2025-03-24 Tides of March ☘️ Part 2

    2025-03-24 Tides of March ☘️ Part 2

    If you’re here for the sequel to the migraine saga, this is not the post you are looking for. /waves hand to punctuate Jedi mind powers…  One has to reach the conclusion before they are able to write the conclusion and though I feel I’m almost out of the woods (*hopefully*) I don’t want to…

  • 2025-01-04 Maybe I Will, and Maybe I Won’t

    2025-01-04 Maybe I Will, and Maybe I Won’t

    In 2024 I spent a fair bit of time in reflection and despite the constant hum of hope vibrating in my core, actual life felt like a huge struggle much of the time. I entered the year in a self-imposed hibernation and was poised to come out swinging in February. I was going to make…

  • 2025-12-29 The Ultimate Chutes and Ladders

    2025-12-29 The Ultimate Chutes and Ladders

    A few days ago I started a new entry, the all-encompassing year-end wrap-up. Cuz that’s my way. Or should I say, that’s usually my way. I’ve historically found it pretty satisfying to write about some topic, start to finish, where I can tie everything together with a beautiful bow and present it like a true…

  • 2024-12-28 Oh Those MFA Feels…

    2024-12-28 Oh Those MFA Feels…

    I’m headed back to Nebraska City today. The home of UNOs MFA residency experience, the birthplace of my poetry career. Can a person craft a career out of poetry?  No.  That’s laughable. But it’s the cool aid they serve and I drank it in giant gulps.  I exaggerate, of course, because that’s my way. A…

  • 2024-12-17 Oh, Hello Again.

    2024-12-17 Oh, Hello Again.

    December 17th. Happy Birthday Kel.  One of my oldest and dearest friends. We both rotated around the same circles in high school, tethered by the gravitational force of mutual friends and bonded by humor. I’m grateful for our many years of comradery and kinship.  December 17th is a day that always seems to want to…

  • 2024-08-30 Mercury Can Just Eff Off Already

    2024-08-30 Mercury Can Just Eff Off Already

    I had high hopes for August. Such high, high hopes. But sometimes a girl sets her expectations too high. Something in the Universe told me it would be a fantastic month so who was I to argue?!  About half way through I was still holding on to hope despite the “shit show” that had been…

  • 2024-07-01 A Peek Behind the Curtain of Creation

    2024-07-01 A Peek Behind the Curtain of Creation

    No… not another origin story for some superhero or where life on planet Earth started. This is an “Account” of where my poems originate. “Account” is the name of one publication I’m interested in submitting work to. Their unique spin in the literary world is that they ask for (and publish) a separate document explaining…