Francine Marie Tolf

I will praise my failures. I will praiseWhat I have not accomplished and do not…

You know from their deeply grooved barkthey hold marvelous stories.They are taller than oak treesand…

Like King David, they have drunkthe wine of astonishment. Mouths open wide,they lean toward me…

At fifty-three, I sometimes feel a subtle but irreversible sadness seeping into my blood. I…

I am tired of my dreams’ dark interiors and the family ghosts who inhabit them.…