A few days ago I shared my Top Twelve (Prose) Posts of 2010. But much of what I've posted this year hasn't been prose -- it's been poetry. So I thought I'd share a list of my top ten poems (some of which are multi-part poems -- the Miriam cycle, the Akedah cycle) posted here during the secular year now ending. Thanks for reading! Here's to more poetry and more conversation in 2011.

• Read Write Poem 109: Six Weeks. "the changes leave me / gobsmacked..."

• Another mother poem for Read Write Prompt 113: Walking and falling at the same time. "Remember the warm flat river / which smelled like walnuts..."

• Another mother poem: for readwritepoem prompt #118. "I want to burn that bra / my husband says..."

• Mother Psalm 5. "Trying to sit up is hungry work. / I praise your abs for doing their part, / I settle you on the pillow in my lap..."

• Another mother poem (for Big Tent Poetry): Hand-me-downs. "My knife zips through tape / and the box unfolds its wings..."

• The Akedah Cycle: a sermon in poetry for the second day of Rosh Hashanah. "after these things / the sweet and the bitter / God tested Avraham..."

• Mother Psalm 8. "When all else fails, a stroll will put you to sleep. / We walk beneath trees still mostly green, here / and there a branch burst into purple flame, until / Whole Foods looms glossy at the sidewalk's end..."

• Mother poem with a line borrowed from Erdrich: Choice. "In the beginning we had to choose / to open my body to possibility..."

• Seven Miriam Stories. "I’m nine years old when my mother gives birth. / The women who attend her hasten me out, but / I hear her groaning..."

• Mother Psalm 9. "When the doctor brought you / through my narrow places / I was as in a dream..."