One More Dream That Never Happened

torn jeans and patches of blue unraveling

blinded by rows of white grave markers

blood red stones sometimes the road fills my shoes

too soon to bloom the magnolias slip into global warming

wake-up call the rocks are alive with garter snakes

hardscrabble landscape I'm drawn in by desolation

bricks in disarray one more dream that never happened

president's day there's nothing to celebrate

false spring the real fake news happened in bowling green and sweden

Sweden update: Riots broke out in Sweden a day after Trump's comments. I'm guessing he's feeling pretty smug about this turn of events.

february warm up only the fog retains its coolness

water-stained books and other things I shouldn't keep

ripples of conversation left by the heron

torn curtains the new normal of chaos and disrepair

a lonely winter taken up by a family of orchids*

*orchid show at the Missouri Botanical Garden

valentine's day time to reflect on those I've loved and those I've lost

bumps in cyberspace the tricky 2's* adding (to, too, two) trump's legacy

*trump poster

"...no challenge is to great"