Tag: wrinkles
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Nothing To Lose
For as we age Our faces fold in upon themselves The maps of all our days emerge In laugh-lines, in worry-warts In fingers grown like twigs on a forest floor Beginnings mete out endings Relations fall from edges of our earths White-salted seas encroach once-growing green But all in all, I would not have it […]
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O Vanity (or, on Being Beautiful)
Every day I carefully sift through my closet to put together an outfit that’s coordinated, spiffy & “interesting.” I sigh about being on old lady, but I dress it up anyway. I fix my hair (wear it front or back?), I dress for the weather (long sleeves in New Mexico can be too much at […]
Riding the Light 