My Book for Sale

Dance First …ask questions later: poems & paintings by Shé is now available for purchase. The e-book includes more than 100 poems and 70 artworks spanning 45 of my hard-won years. To celebrate, I sang loudly and danced exuberantly along shore. Variations on the theme Hallelujah! rang through my brain throughout the day, including versions by George Frideric Handel, Quincy Jones, and Leonard Cohen. Celebrate good times, for sure.

Here’s a poem from the tome to whet your appetite:

Audience  
I gave my poem to a homeless man 
He asked me for money 
flashed 2 quarters in his hand 
bright new silver, Maryland 
and Delaware 
I gave him a poem 
written for a dead friend 

He thanked me 
and repeated his plea 
That's it, I said 
just the poem 
The light changed 
and I crossed the street 
neither of us the worse for wear