Poetry

Cherry blossoms

Cherry blossoms, 3/30/2025

Mar 30

A love note to the Smithsonian

In verse, stories, links and images.

Mar 29

Thursday morning arrivals

Sometimes poems just pop up overnight

Mar 27

“Self-striping" yarn: a metaphor for life

If you knit, you know.

Mar 9

Haiku found at lunch

Mar 8

I met this one on a short walk in the sunshine

Mar 1

Go ahead and patch that hole.

Feb 28

Make room for love

I think I wrote this

Feb 16

Should I dine alone because my dinner partner may die tomorrow?Thanks for reading Spiral Notebook!

Feb 11

Fight or flight

Will I fly or fight?

Feb 6

Feb 6

Happy hour haiku

With a simple recipe

Jan 31

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