I am participating in Verselove2026. It is a call to write a poem each day in April. I will be writing every day, but I am not sure how many of my poems will make it to a greater audience. We’ll have to wait and see.

Inside of me is the City of Brotherly Love
where I spent my childhood and adolescence.
On hot summer days, we’d sit on cool concrete steps waiting
waiting for the “brrrring, brrrring” of Rosie’s water ice truck.

Inside of me is a girl who played outside
until the street lights came on, who remembers
nightly dinners with the whole family,
neighborhood pride and football rivalries.

A place where important things happened…
where I learned to love music and the Phillies,
where I met my forever love and bought our first home,
where we grew into our little family of four.

Inside of me is a place where I no longer live, 
but a place and a feeling that will always live in me.