K’in Selects “Opportunities for Stillness”

My poem, “Opportunities for Stillness” was selected by the editors at K’in to be included in their fall issue #8. I was thrilled as this is a poem centered on my recovery from triple bypass surgery and is part of a broader chapbook called “The Historical Heart.” Check it out here! https://kinliteraryjournal.com/poetry-schabarum-issue-8

The Outside Toy

  The Outside Toy is nothing but a stick you dragged up from the lake where it floated perhaps from the mountains we loved where you raced, a gazelle over felled trees, or dipped your muzzle into clear streams. We were so alike all those years, before my heart collapsed and you laid there all […]

3 Poems at Cathexis Northwest Press

Thank you to the editor(s) at Cathexis Northwest Press for their publication of three poems from my See America collection. It’s a pleasure to be included in their September 2019 issue with other fine poets. Please click on the link below: https://www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/covinatoblytheca1977

The Following Sea

Thank you to the editors of Floating Bridge Press for inclusion of my poem in Pontoon. It’s beautifully presented. The Following Sea

All You Who Sleep Tonight

1 year ago this weekend, I had triple bypass surgery. It’s been a very difficult year save for the brightness of my marriage to my husband, John, last summer and the continuing love he brings. I wrote a cycle of poems that I thought I was finished with, which I presented at the Rainier Valley Lit Crawl […]

Poetry at Spinnaker Bay, Hillman City

This weekend marks the first time I’ll be reading in public for a year. It also marks the anniversary, of sorts, of my journey with heart disease, triple bypass and recovery. I’ll be reading The Heart Cycle, a series of poems about the experience. It has been an extraordinary year, which culminated in pancreatitis and […]

Published Poems from See America

I’m very happy to report that two poems from my 16 poem suite, See America, have been published very recently. The Final Drive, Seattle 2015 was published in the Fall/Winter issue of Crab Creek Review. Check our their website here: http://www.crabcreekreview.org West Hollywood to Pasadena, CA, 1998 was published in the Pontoon section of Floating Bridge […]

Confidence

Six years ago, at the beginning of Fall on the cusp of turning 50, and after a summer in which all confidence was beginning to abandon me in many areas of my life, I put together a selection of poems and sent them out in the world. I had not attempted to publish anything for eight […]

My Book is a Lake

For thirteen years I’ve walked along this lake, most with a dog, stick in his mouth, longing, eyes on the lake. Now, I can only touch his stick, which he is offering to me, and which I know disappoints him because I can’t throw it into the water until I heal. I’m too focused on […]

Hubris

I never want to know the many things they did when they flayed open my chest, my arm, cracked my sternum and stopped my heart. Blissful ignorance is what I needed, and some drugs, buckets of them. I was reminded too much of salmon, gutted torsos, lungs, heart, parts. But that’s how they do, these magicians, these […]