"Oh beautiful for spacious skies--yes, where is today's innocence?   I think I love your mother's green rayon dress the best, close tie with the Royal portable.  beautiful poem, Margaret  Nostalgia serving as a mirror to…"

"Nathan, lovely, down home real poem.     xcellent--hope yr traveling well these days. "

"The first stanza is so enticing--I love the whole sad song throughout.   Writing about loss, pearl for metaphor--lovely lovely brilliant"

"Pretty, a pretty poem for a tender time.  I love the ending: the inside of an egg waiting to be pecked--the old days of snow and wet--happy holidays to all and to all a goodnight! "

"Hey Don, I had to turn out all the lights and hide at 7:50--I buy 200 servings, enough for 200 little drop-in-the-bags every Halloween.  I figure it's part of my property tax on this elegant hill where they come in card and trucks, many…"

"Hi Aaron, "our whiteness" is an off-hand reference, to Larry and to me maybe, about Aunt Jemima, an icon of wonderful syrup bottles filled with maternal comfort.  Color, like in blankets, everywhere in life, and in a group of animals…"

"Tony, bravo as per usual--the beauty and the sorrow captured for our contemplation--gracías Larry, yes--Aunt Jemima was a symbol of plenty and well-being.  Thank you for throwing her in your corn dance poem--yes, and our whiteness. …"

"Thanks for the comments all--@Rich, the thing is, women have to solve all their issues and world issues without the knocking upside the head.  We must do it with the vote, with education, with art and voices open and fearless everywhere. …"

"This is an older poem--maybe 09, but I felt like it needed to get out of the drawer again for a while.  Thx Jules"

"yeah, some of em lock, stock, en barrel!!!  xoxoxox"

"Georgia--this makes me laugh at the end and I'm happy I can see you furiously combusting this poem as you clean up windfall apples and contemplate cider or wine-making in the new fall breezes, your once red hair glinting like the vague and slow…"