By Lorraine Walker Williams Golden Gate Branch     Swollen creeks like milky coffee run fast along grassy banks Tree bark moss glistens   Clouds thick with shadow hang their ... Read more

By Carolyn Joyce Tokson Pensacola Branch    Please place the coin under my tongue. I know I am dead now, but it is important. The coin is for Charon, the ... Read more

By Lisa Scott-Ponce Santa Clara Branch     Scrambling over gritty granite boulders Hiking upward, mile after mile on a never-ending dusty trail Catching my breath, crying over bloody blisters ... Read more

Rosalee J. Tithof Palm Springs Branch     Some people say I have joined a club. It is a membership I did not choose. Life must go on… Or so ... Read more

By Barbara Dunham Pensacola Branch     29 years.  She’s been bathing residents for 29 years.   And I am now one of them. Too broken to bathe myself. So very ... Read more

By Sharon E. Ludan Honolulu Branch   “The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun…”    – W.H. Auden, Funeral Blues ... Read more

By Sara Etgen-Baker Member-at-Large   winter solstice arriving shortest day and longest night silent trees gather forces for returning light   lighter, longer, brighter days saunter through the winter gloom ... Read more