Wabi-Sabi (Perfectly Imperfect)

Ski Reverie

ski day reverie
filled with powder grins,
soft turns, silent flakes
always a long day
yet happiness takes its time
falling from the sky

She’s Off

the break feels shorter
as my oldest leaves again
bavk to college life

The Scrapping-Together-Book

so different from your sister's
when i spent many joyful hours 
piecing together the photos of her youth

your youth is marred, robbed, broken
and i don't know why
i don't know why

and it might be the not knowing
that will take us both

Girls’ Weekend

post-pandemic flight
the first for me; with my girls
to steal a weekend
beautiful DC:
the center of our country,
sordid past exposed
a bar mitzvah morn
in year five-seven-eight-three
from our first beliefs
a city forest
walking distance from temple
Shabbat salom. Peace.
my happy daughters
finding books, happiness, love
on our girls’ weekend

More than a Milestone

getting her to here
after COVID/grief trauma?
a grin worth winning