Loose Leaf Notes

It rolls across the sky growing in size an icy packed shine in a polar wave of winter Through a flurry of stars in a galaxy drift it plows a far flung path of orbit ______Colleen Redman / Poets United

_______________ Silver blade in a night ice capade cuts a luminescent figure ________Colleen Redman

I’m starting to like sauerkraut I’m worried that the water in the chicken coop has frozen I need a haircut And ever since I saw that serrated spoon in the silverware drawer this morning I’ve been thinking about grapefruit Awesome is for narcissists and fine is for china Today I ordered a hat pin from […]

Worse than being bit when I was eight years old was the shame I felt having to pull up my skirt and pull down my pants to show the doctor Almost as bad as that were the jokes that followed and never having a dignified way to say bum, butt, rear-end or fanny For years […]

  Glass ball ornament string of lights sky Punchbowl moon for auld lang syne   __________Imaginary Garden with Real Toads

I look for her on the tops of trees I think she’d notice that the poplar pods are empty That they’re shaped like baby tulips cups for the mysterious drinks that keep me small and made her so big My eyes search the unseen and when I lose what I need I know she knows […]

I went looking for my poetic voice in my childhood home and found it in the floral wallpaper of my bedroom I found it on the stairs to the second floor where I had a past life memory of living in a castle My dad is still standing on the stairs between floors He’s got […]

I wake cold turkey like clockwork to the sound of your car in the driveway Solitude is the fix I want to be alone with but I fear the confinement and my tolerance for abandonment is low I try not to think about the clutter in the basement or the rain washing foundations away I recreate […]

It’s a fairy tale of carousels spells and confetti Impressionistic valleys and Van Gogh gold It’s a Seurat painted scene of once upon a time with a hip hop drop from a mountain climb Where the red trees flame to light the traveler’s view All the better to see you with my dears ____________Real Gardens […]

Shadow Shot Sunday

Leaves swish and flutter like hushed applause on an emptying stage of days A spotlight sun lowers on a gold laden story Crows add drama foretell the future from the bright heights of glory to the bare boned unknown _____Colleen Redman / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads

The older I get the less I have to prove or to say (something new) The more I’m bored with routine sameness the less I like changes Is less really more and more never enough? I know more but remember it less ____Colleen Redman / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads