The mind wants to build on the old structure. But the Beloved says, “Don’t balance this sparkling window in a worn out frame. Leave all and start anew.” This requires some destruction. Pain sparks in the chest and rips through muscle and bone but only as long as we resist. See clearly through […]
On an icy winter day I step out of the bank and stop fast. There in front of me shuffles my mother. I see her glossy, silver hair, red wool coat and body hunched over a walker. My heart thuds in my chest. It’s an apparition, a ghost! My mother passed away more than a […]
We lounge in a meadow near a babbling brook a lone cloud inching across a sapphire sky. It has a head, my friend says pointing to the cloud. Yes, I say, as I see the canine snout protrude and a curve form along the jaw. There’s an eye! The pinhole opens. And tail! A wisp […]
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Perma-love
These flash floods tear through and erode one’s homeland. They wash away the topsoil and leave in their wake gullies, ditches and silt. The ...
Choose the Friend
Keep being me and choosing You even though it feels like the harder thing to do. In the end this choice of the Friend ...
The Limping Lizard
The lizard limps down the middle of the dirt road. I stop the car, climb out, herd him to the side. He only perseveres back ...
