a chain link fence                                 surrounds us in the yard                                                                                                                     the guards stand watch                                       a diffident distance                                                   away                                                                             heavy screens bar                                       all the windows                                          no patients are screaming                                            out of them today                                                                                                                                                                                            there is a momentary calm                                          perhaps a […]

I was privileged to be on the free Puget Sound Honor Flight in April last year. Here is a synopsis and pictures. It was very healing.  Honor Flight to WDC 4/22 and to Vietnam Women’s Memorial and Vietnam Memorial on 4/23rd where my grief came exploding out and subsided. Trip […]

I have been to heaven and hell.My strength forged on the fiery surface of Mercury.Within the bounds of our solar system,I have been a space cadet.My steel was tempered by the light of cosmic energies.Rebirthed countless times,like the infernos of the very sun itself.I will explore beyond the outer planets,further […]

Jingle in the change by Becaley Elsie Going downstairs to mail off my letter is what I have in my mind as I get ready to walk to the post office. I think to myself, do I have enough change to mail this thick letter? I go to my truck […]

 The hummingbird feeder is The social hubbub of The garden, where they love To hover with each other Round the nectar bar. There’s a flutter of feelings there, A blur of rainbows, And also a bumble of bees; Briskly buzzing zingers With their wicked little stingers With those little drops […]

In solitude, I rest in darknessEnclosed inside my hardened outer skin The cool earth surrounds me, protects me, gives me stabilityI feel its abundance all around meHolding me, feeding me Slowly I breathe inthe air piercing my shella breath of clarity, a moment of knowingand there is a change in my being I […]

I’ve had to deal with PTSD and Major Depressive Disorder for many years and once I finally overcame the worst of it, I was able to write this poem to try to explain how the MDD felt to me. Poem by Vanessa Kuljis aka Tasha LeeAnne Wolf

Fish Out of Place The place is the space, The place is the space, outside of time and space. Fish out of place outside of its element, photographic experiment, heavenly blue, dynamic magenta. Chilled to the bone, yet still alive in my mind’s eye, undulating, rhythmic movements. Listen for the message from […]

I am and have been mostly a nonfiction writer but the storytelling class has pushed me to write fiction. The teacher, Vincent Orduna, gave us an assignment to create a fantastical world.  I have never done anything like that but decided to stretch and do what I could. The next assignment […]

Many of the art teachers that I have met through the years — in grade school, at college, and beyond — are funnily rigid.

I present a challenge to most of them.