What Crosses My Mind

  • Finding Streams

    Go home and write a page tonight Let that page come out of you – then it will be true                      -Langston Hughes I ask them all to do it, my students wide eyed or sleepy take these words and let them become yours, tell us…

  • Finding a Moment

     Go home and write       a page tonight.       And let that page come out of you—       Then, it will be true. – Langston Hughes ~ Though when time would suggest it is an easy ask, this only task we have in life, is to speak our truths, who it is we might be, what we believe,…

  • This Letter

    I would compose a letter that might or could ought to contain everything, yet there is that piece of the human condition prevents everyone from being perhaps Stephen King, or Charles Bukowski, even Sylvia Plath.   Emily Dickinson is said to have lived a reclusive life in her bedroom overlooking a lawn where children played,…

  • Ode to Langston Hughes

    I have admired you From afar In the pages that you appear I even speak about your ability To Suggest I mean, like, make a strong Statement ~ I wish I might have seen you personally Sometime at a slam, slamming, speaking Utilizing An opportunity that indicates peace ~ See I wonder why we can…