Hold Up the Sky

your bucket list waits
for a ‘delicate’ sunset,
a breathtaking arch
your children await
at the top of a boulder
with the perfect view
a lifetime awaits
at the end of vacation
yet memories last

Flowers for Futures

after four days off
(a vacation i needed)
what a perfect note
and the orchid blooms!
he bought her eight years ago
(just a baby then)
they were babies then
my daughters, their dolls, these blooms
(trying to find light)
now unstoppable 
bursting with so many buds
(flowers for futures)

First Tracks

Heaven in Winter

Cloud Surfing

As Bright As Snow

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

Ski Religion

Ode to Winter

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