Between Friends: Anita Holzberg

Two woman, Anita Holzberg and Ann Wainwright met over the internet with Bill Costley,

their common friend, whose wife Carolin had been Ann's good friend. Starting in

June '09, Anita sent a Cupcake poem to Ann's website cakecakecake, after seeing

the photo of cupcakes. The poem was about her grandson's first birthday party. Ann

liked that and it was the start of a wonderful exchange of poems from Anita to Ann and

Ann with color, photos, and lay-out savvy, presented them to the blog. Now, in 2010,

the two women so alike in spirit and interests, have started BetweenFriends, a new blog

site where they can combine ideas about their worlds. Ann lives in Northern UK

(Teesside). Anita lives in Northern California, Sunnyvale, (Silicon Valley where all the

computers are.) We share our lives on this blog and hope you will comment and share

yours too, dear readers and enjoy the "ride".

Sunday, 11 July 2010

Underscoring

the human in h u m a n i t y

I exit the Oakland train

a policeman helps me with my suitcase

a cafeteria manager

pours me a cup of hazelnut coffee

and throws in a plain old fashioned donut

at 65, my smile still turns heads (joke)

I fold up laundry for a friend over 70

he sings my praises

the hibiscus blooms bright red near my door-step

my garbage cans are taken in by someone

Under wraps

I see h u m a n i t y

waffled -eyed dreams

march in

the day

and the summer breeze

never ever the same.

Anita Schiffman Holzberg