Category Archives: Line-a-day Poem

One line per day becomes a long poem after a year!

at summer solstice sunset.

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she’s blind to cirri, radiant

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Awaiting nightfall,

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and brings a lesson of stones.

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She abandons words

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Virginia Woolf beside me.’

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Loons’ common laughter, gulls’ cries.

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quiet water, stones.

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‘I need beauty, a place of

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What was she thinking?

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down a lane of spent lilacs.

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Her final turn off pavement,

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black above asphalt.

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she drives through clouds of mayflies,

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Sand against windshield:

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that run through, burn her fingers.

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sifts through sands of discontent

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seeks worlds in prayer,

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a penitent, forsaken,

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Clothed in rags and gold,

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the cruel silks of perfection.

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The spirit struggles, caught in

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what is gained? What lost?

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or a curse. In the striving,

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Salvation: a prize

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or by what it is they find.

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defined by what they seek there

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waystations or home:

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journey to sanctuaries,

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Pilgrims all and each

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