Purely Prema

A New Leaf

My older daughter’s living room has a bay window that overlooks broad, rough grass sloping down to the cul-de-sac.

Jan 7

December 2025

November 2025

Paros: Island of the Aegean Sea

Valeria and I write to be a part of each other’s lives, lives that are not distanced by the Atlantic Ocean, the Pyrenees Mountains, or even the…

Nov 9, 2025

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October 2025

Poetry in the Neighborhood

A dove's call

Oct 1, 2025

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September 2025

August 2025

Under the Sunflower

In 1966, my then husband Paul and I arrived in Luxembourg to tour Europe. In a 4HP Renault station wagon, we headed southwest to Paris, renting by the…

Aug 6, 2025

July 2025

Five Summer Weeks in Oregon

In the summer of 2019, my brother and sister-in-law left a small town in northeastern Massachusetts to travel to southwestern Oregon and one of its…

Jul 2, 2025

June 2025

Awareness with Thich Nhat Hanh

Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh* was first published in 1993.

Jun 4, 2025

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March 2025

A Boy Named Lakhan: Part Three

Four mornings a week, my alarm sounds at 5:30.

Mar 5, 2025

February 2025

A Boy Named Lakhan: Part Two

"One morning in the second week, I had suddenly become aware of a smaller boy in the group of children in the five-to-six age range.

Feb 5, 2025