Sara Etgen-Baker Member-at-Large   I.   Blankness empty page awaits— a silent, hungry canvas first word breaks the dawn. II. Alchemy black ink spills like night across the field of pure ... Read more

  By Joan Kantor Sarasota Branch   Whose love passion sadness fears have poured through their fingers and onto these keys before me With each clunking laborious stroke rattling tap ... Read more

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