Laurel Jean Becker Denver Branch   The burgundy candle supports you. You run the length of its solid core, extending out from one end, dependent and vulnerable. If you were ... Read more

Donna Bruno Ft. Lauderdale Branch   The satin sheen of Great-grandmother’s table Duncan-Phyffe mahogany gives testament to generations before me who dutifully polished it with elbow-grease to enhance its lustrous ... Read more

Barb Whitmarsh Bayou City Branch, Texas   There I sit Done with trees Their rugged hide Their fallen leaves   Ended the garden At mid-lawn With vibrant roses And firethorn ... Read more

Cornelia DeDona Member-at-large, Kingston, New York   I slammed my heart into love’s door bloodied and bruised it swelled on the other side of a reckoning exacted its price no ... Read more

Elizabeth Diane Martin Pikes Peak Branch, Colorado   In turmoil and distrust In the midst of fear and confusion A decision to love Changed a wandering Wondering heart Into one ... Read more

Linda Farmer Ames Columbus Branch, Georgia   I, mighty oak, have stood rooted here for greater than one hundred years, surrounded by brothers and sisters, all of Mother Nature’s children. ... Read more

  Donna DeLeo Bruno Ft. Lauderdale Branch   I stand before my teenage students     Speaking of Homer’s “Odyssey,” Of Penelope, Ulysses’ faithful and long-suffering wife     Who ... Read more

Bette J. Lafferty Tampa Branch, Florida   It has been years since we first came to this little park, where young saplings with limbs so strong reached to the heavens ... Read more

  Grady Sue Loftin Saxon Alabama Birmingham Branch   I looked up just as she slipped through the open doorway of the hospital waiting room that was filled with my ... Read more

Kim Beardsley-Garrison Palm Springs  Branch The naked eye chooses to believe What the mind chooses to ignore. Pretend smiles and positive words Proclaim a happy mood, But not all bruises ... Read more