Small Dreams

tiny house adieu
 from our vacation
 from reality
 

Climate Hopeful

in snowfall we trust
 to have a blue-skied morrow
 free from this whitewash
 
 in ski days we trust
 to build a better morrow
 for these sweet faces
 
 

 

Searching for Heaven

even escapes bleed
 with guilt-ridden winds of snow
 that just can’t ice him
 
 

One at a Time

Parent/teacher conferences. Just met with a Somali mother who told me her daughter and son were not able to attend school until they arrived here four years ago. Now the daughter is set to graduate with a 3.0 GPA while learning English and adjusting to life in a new country after staying home and helping her mother raise six kids for all those years. She wants to be a doctor.
 
 She is human. She is Muslim. She is Somalian. She is America.
 
 Help me help them find a place in our #trumpocracy
 
 #standwithrefugees
 
 

Weakening

i want to resist
 but sci-fi is on my brain
 will it be futile?
 
 
 

Dear Girl Scouts Council,

did you really think
no one would buy the s’mores?
sometimes you don’t plan.

Cookie Crumbles

just a taste of hope
 sweeter than a Samoa
 my small activist
 

Ode to RBG

Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
you may be our final hope.
No dying now, please.

Sleepless Moaning

of all the earth’s cats
 we got the malfunctioned spay
 going nuts in heat
 
 

Peaking

march to the mountains

to end historic weekend

and soak up this view