fascinating new novel

heavy in my arthritic hands

the 600 pages of Pharaoh Across Time

finds itself cradled to be read

because i care about the characters

and need to follow their adventures

                                author:  Anne Stackpole-Cuellar

be‘witching’ insight

be’witching’ insight

 seeing a witch doll

sprawled halfway up

a telephone pole

as though she’d lost

her way in the fog

and crashed her broom

i realized then

my favorite characters

sprawl the spectrum

of good and bad

noble and sneaky

gentle and nasty

just as my favorite

people do