by McKenzie | Jul 6, 2020 | Blog, Literary Scene
Happy Monday, friends! I hope you’re all having a nice start to your week and are doing your best to keep your spirits high. I’ve been struggling a lot lately with all that’s going on in our world, as I’m sure many can agree with. Fortunately...
by McKenzie | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog, My Poems
A SEAGULL MAKES A LONE CALL, OFF-COURSE And across from me a bird roots in the gutter, looking for spare twigs. Its dark feathered body dip in and out of the track, its tail striking the air. I wonder insteadif it has made a nest up there when its body disappears....
by McKenzie | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog, My Poems
Where Sylvia Plath’s “Blackberrying” and social distancing meet . . . IN THE MORNING, WHERE I WALK Out to the street where cars have been parked for days, I know little of what brings the birds out of their hiding, what has come of the neighbors who...
by McKenzie | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog, My Poems
SOCIAL DISTANCE & WHAT’S LEFT— I look out my windows, check social media, more often than I should, & wonder where the parked cars have gone, also too often, question if there is somewhere I could have gone, too. Out there, I know, someone is...
by McKenzie | Oct 25, 2019 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges, Blog
Happy Friday, friends! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week. I know in the last couple weeks I’ve been a bit off my game as far as posting regularly. I’ve had good reasons—family stuff, birthdays, travel, illness—but that doesn’t mean...
by McKenzie | Oct 18, 2019 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges, Blog
Hi friends! Happy Friday! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week! It’s been almost two weeks since my last post. Last week was quite the week, and I did very little writing. This week has been all about catching up and getting back in the rhythm, so again,...
