World Tuna day is just past, May 2, and I wonder if the tuna care? World Dandelion Day was May 3rd, do the dandelions lose their clocks that day? How about World Sandwich-makers day? Would anyone cheer? Best yet, International Nurses’ Day, which is May 12th, those wonderful, caring, compassionate people …
the nurse wears
soft shoes 
… 3 a.m
****
expert fingers
change my dressing
sage and thyme
****
compassion
she stops to listen
and explain
NEW! ‘A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws a picture of the poet’s divorced mother, an artist with two children, who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art.
From Inanna Publications, May 15, 2016.
