The light that is shining
over there is a traffic sign.
I returned the money I borrowed.

My bird is the cardinal,
one will sometimes come to me

or vanishing bluebird,

I wish somebody would give me
a couple of live panda bears.
After all these years I deserve them.

Psst. This is just for you, whoever you are, and not for any of the others. I am so excited by the possibility that you will be the one to read this that I cannot contain myself any longer. You will know who I am, won’t you, even though I deliberately make one or too common spelling errers so the others won't guess my identity?

They come in many sizes—small and faint, loud and 
thunderous. And it’s a problem, what to do with them,
they won’t rise up to heaven where ears have the power

Although I keep a kleenex box in each room to wipe up cereal and apple juice, it’s not always easy to find one when I need it.

My kitchen is like New York State. Sprawled out and with divergent needs, it requires more than one kleenex box. 

While asleep, a man gives birth to an idea of a woman. He  wakes and finds it curled comfortably against him.

I hold no greater value
than the secret
Please believe I strive

What life
after the photograph
of the granddaughters

A woman speaks:
“I hear you were in San Francisco.
What did they tell you about me?”