The Manicurist
Back then, a thistle wore a skirt of blossoms.Death streaked your toenails blue. I asked if I was wrong in leaving you.Walking along Leona Canyon,… Read More »The Manicurist
Lenore's collections include "Tap Dancing on the Silverado Trail" (2011) from Finishing Line Press, “Sh’ma Yis’rael” (2007) from Pudding House Publications, and "Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island" (West End Press, 2012). Her writing has won recognition from Poets&Writers (finalist in California Voices contest) and as a finalist for Pablo Neruda Prize, Nimrod International Journal. The Society for Technical Communication has recognized her work regarding Technical Literacy in the schools. All material is copyrighted on this site and cannot be used without the author's permission.
Back then, a thistle wore a skirt of blossoms.Death streaked your toenails blue. I asked if I was wrong in leaving you.Walking along Leona Canyon,… Read More »The Manicurist
I’ve never seen a picture of Bob Dylanas a baby girl but who knows one day the photo may pop up someone swearing on social… Read More »Pseudo Talking Father’s Day Blues
A story shining from every windowno third wall separating the storefrom the shopper, the poem from the poet shape, light, and color those were his stock… Read More »Ode to Victor Gruen, Shopping Mall Maven
I’m exiled in a countrybetween two great waterswhere tornados churn housesinto toothpicks, a mall that used to grow corn. Lunch-time I serve french fries a uniform… Read More »Iphigenia at Lunch-time
Hard to believethey’re closing the doors againthe whole right to life thing. No man knows how to create a home from dreams, prayers, yearningthe magic stuff… Read More »I Support Planned Parenthood
Crossing the Bay Bridge todayI saw an Armenian Genocide bannera public service stretched across the top-knot of Treasure Island yet another grouphunted down by history a… Read More »Need to Know
We stood around the mailbox discussing the noise coming from behind the wall of our bathrooms. I was just back from grocery shopping. Arven, my next-door neighbor… Read More »Edgar Allan Poe in the Condo Development
For weeks I saw cardboard boxes stacked outside the landing my neighborsdismantled eight years of living everything taped and labeleda two-bedroom bought on foreclosure paid… Read More »Sense of Place
Children’s book for middle-grade readers, ages 9-12, an urban environmental fantasy set at the edge of a condo development where we meet 10-year-old Leah who… Read More »The Glimmerine Ready for Purchase
Paper mill town closed down. Sporting goods store the big draw.Hunters shop for camouflage,a new barrel gauge. Deer season. Six months here,I’m in a red chair… Read More »Song for Guns & License