A Pacific Northwest native, I have been writing poetry over 40 years. My poems reflect a woman’s journey through the later years, with recurring themes of loss and renewal.
I have read at many local poetry venues and am a member of Seattle Poets Table. My first book, If the Moon Came Out Only Once a Month, was published in 2012 and my current book, What the Tulips Said, was published this year.
Thank you to Carolanne Watness for her photo pictured above the poem.
One must be bold
to bloom in winter.
One must ignore the odds,
take a chance with snow
and low light, thrust
upward like a swimmer
in a red bikini coming
to the surface, rising high
and higher still, until
you are too top-heavy
for your pot, your waxy stem
provocative and insolent:
your scarlet blossom
flirtatious and seductive.
Your beauty fills my window frame,
blurs raindrops into background.
I want to copy you, explode
my own carnival colors,
stick my tongue out
at January,
recklessly display
what can be accomplished
when the world
is cold and dark.
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