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Being Barbara, A Poem that Had to be Written

When we were visiting Victoria BC last year, we went into Murchie’s Tea Shop which we always visit when we take the ferry to Canada. Besides buying tea to bring…Read More »

Ekphrastic Event Online

Each year in August our Northwind Art Gallery invites poets to come in, select a painting and write a poem about it. Previously the gallery then hosted a evening of…Read More »

Beach Poem in Westchester Review Fall Issue

My poem, “Wish Beach,” is online in the Fall 2020 issue of the Westchester Review. To read it, go to www.westchesterreview.com and scroll down to the Poetry section and click…Read More »

Poem in September’s American Journal of Nursing.

This poem is about a situation I encountered several times as a Hospice RN. A relative of the dying person has dementia and can’t remember being told the loved one…Read More »