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The Long Way Home Now Available!

The Long Way Home Now Available!

Cover_alonePeaches Packer swore she didn’t burn the house down. But because of the fire she and her brother Matthew bought an almost new RV called The Bounder. Their adventure started out as a lark but quickly the voids in their lives gnawed their way into the escapade. What Peaches really wanted was a man to love and take care of her, but she wasn’t sure how to find one. Matthew wanted someone in his life too, and it wasn’t his sister.

Forced to face the reality of Matthew’s unhappiness and the ominous need to take responsibility for mistakes in her past, Peaches relies on her own ingenuity to jumpstart her life. She ultimately strengthens her self-esteem and forges a brand new direction.

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Worm Saving

Worm Saving

It rained last night.  The quiet

of the morning is deceiving.

I’m aware of a connection

I can’t quite touch,

something that runs through new

green oak leaves, touches

the manure in my horse stalls

and extends to the annoying hum

of my mother.

It isn’t the fact that things are

new or dirty

or even annoying,

but the fact that it

is now

but won’t be forever.

 

Worms slither on the road

to keep from drowning.

They are hard to collect for

I have no fingernails.

They’ll die under wheels if I don’t

chuck them into the bushes.

Yet when my neighbor passes,

I pretend to study the pavement.