by Mary McKSchmidt | Mar 8, 2026 | Poetry, 2026
Only the bedspread is blue, a bedroom where bay windows are a lens into life inside a forest. It is not the sunny vista discussed every morning she awakened to my presence, but in this room every morning, I feel her presenceand am anything but blue. “Hello, my...
by Mary McKSchmidt | Feb 23, 2026 | Poetry, 2026
How storm clouds swallowing the horizon seem to dissipatewhen I have no access to anythingbut you and meand this moment. How I wish to retreatinto this cocoon of comfortforever, never again to feel suffering for which I have no...
by Mary McKSchmidt | Feb 9, 2026 | Poetry, 2026
1. enticing blue skies last lingering leaf conflictedthose final hours 2. heart sliced by painonslaught of torrential rainswimming to the sky our familiar bench bare limbs of locust drenchedground littered with leaves orphan in shadowshalting hoot of the Hornravine...
by Mary McKSchmidt | Jan 26, 2026 | 2026, Poetry
In the darkness created by those intentionally unravelling the threads of our Constitution, let me see the light that keeps me hopefulgoodness will prevail,that gives me courage to speak and live my own truth,that allows me to see the beauty beyond the...
by Mary McKSchmidt | Jan 12, 2026 | Poetry, 2026
Like how he hadn’t wanted to make the four-hour drive to the once-familiar lake nestled in the mountains of northern Arizona— how repeated blows to his spine stillreverberated down his back decades after that last championship football game; like how he struggled to...
by Mary McKSchmidt | Jan 5, 2026 | Poetry, 2026
born to a published writer who loved life, a communications pioneerwho enhanced relations between public school leaders and voters so that every school millage passed; and to a man, born in poverty, whoearned an MBA in accounting and a PhD in economics to fightfor...
