I write in my head a lot, mostly when I’m driving. I hear a phrase in the lyrics of the music I’m listening to and an idea is born. I try to keep them in my head until I get... Read More

Sitting in the waiting room, twenty-four years ago,  shivering, not because I was in a hospital gown 2 sizes too small,  naked underneath from the waist up. It must have been adrenaline. Or does that cause sweatiness? I was freezing,... Read More

P. L. Krahnke Thousands of miles in a backseat Sunk in the bench seat while  The adults drive and steer And yell sit down let’s play a game. Sweet Jesus, why do we have to play a game, I don’t... Read More

                                                                                                                           POINTS OF VIEW This morning, alone in the house,moving up the stairs to my room,I think…I am the only one of 7 billion humans who is seeing these particular dust motesdancing in this specific ray of sunlightstreaming across this... Read More

Thank you for the green wall my back pressed against when I was new, just starting to feel brave enough to share. Back then I looked across the room at a butterfly mama and her daughter. I wrote during my... Read More

I have always been a wanderer Over land and sea Yet a moonbeam on the water Casts a spell o’er me A vision fair I see Again I seem to be Back home again in Indiana And it seems that... Read More

    We learn and teach and as we go each woman sings~ each woman’s hands are water wings. From “Water Women” by All Renee Bozarth I was pushed out of a very rocky and leaky boat twenty-eight years ago.... Read More

She is playful, a mop of hair, a puffy sleeved dress with a ribboned waist, covering crinolines and ruffled panties. Mud is caked on the heels of her patent leathers. She likes to remind me that she is still here,... Read More

    Efficiencies. So many Noises. Good God. Almighty doctors, Specialists all, This one for that and That one for this and they are all twelve years old And they are all super cute, Hip, snappy, right on time with... Read More

  The Near West Side Neighborhood has been a cat neighborhood for as long as I’ve been around here. From 1978-1982, my young son and I rented a house from John Layman at 706 West Sixth Street.  I had a... Read More