Vicki & Words: Poetry and Prose

Poems

about life

 
 Andalusia
 After the War
 Observations at La Madeleine
 This Small Good Thing
 The Week Post-Chemo
 Baby Day at La Madeleine
 Light on Water
 Enlightenment in Two Movements
 Night Wind
 New Year
 Truckstop Memory
 Moon Child
 Moonflowers
 Like Being in Love
 Hopping Freights
 At the Sporting Goods Store
 The Blazing Heart
 Two from the Waiting Room
 Stray Thoughts
 A Whole World I Do Not Know
 "I sometimes say..."
 Rain Forest
 Do Not Imagine
 Geneva, 1974, Winter
 Mykonos, Holy Week, 1972
 At Adele's
 Lines from a Trip South
 The Hermit Emerges
 Night Rain
 Body Poem 
 Dancing in My Seat at Ruby Tuesday
 Nothing About This
 Many Selves
 You Can't Go Back
 Powering Up, Powering Down
 Love Song for Ben Heppner
 Shooting Stars
 Thanksgiving Moment
 At the Carriage House
 The Patriarchy Blanket (for Peaches)

about love

 
 Your Poems
 Open Heart
 They've Got the Perfect Way
 Pop Psychology Sucks
 Twisted
 Revisiting Eden
 Song of My Cyberself
 The Only Things Left
 Hypothetical Question
 Lunchtime Epiphany
 For the One Who Asked
 tried to write a story, failed, and came up with this
 Change Partners
 What Dreams Can Do
 Haunted House
 The Man Asked Piercing Questions with Barbed Hooks
 Tuner
 Yet Another Mirror 
 After the Fire
 Desire
 School of Love
 Pick Up the Pieces
 Collateral Damage
 Secret Garden
 Ground Zero
 Throwing Away the Stone 
 The Funeral
 The Map
 Comedy, in the style of Dante
 La Commedia e' Finita
 The Lion Velvets His Paws
 Lioness
 She Bear

about God

 
 God = Love = God = Love =
 Idolator (looking in a mirror)
 Open Door
 God Is in the Rhythm

Prose

 
 In My Grandmother's Garden
 My Aunt Kay
 The Last Letter
 

photograph and all writing © Vicki Abshire, 2010