Just Released! Breaking the Surface, Poems: 2007-2009

A chapbook of poems written about the lake house in Northern Wisconsin where the poet spend her summers and still shares with her family. They are poems of memory and place as well as encompassing the arc of a life lived. Purchase Paperback or Buy for Amazon Kindle.

Looking for Perfection

February 4, 2010

in Breaking the Surface

Each fall
I walk the asphalt road
turned to satin
by rain
and search the splatters
of maple leaves
to find one
perfect crimson star
the size of a baby’s hand.

Today I found one
or so I thought
until I saw
some rogue insect
had preceded me
eating a hole–

–a perfect oval.

“Looking for Perfection” appeared in The Northern Virginia Review, Vol. 22.