Hope

The daylight slipped away and stripped the flame from my last candle,  but one by one the stars began to bloom in gloomy fields of sky, and I, though planted in the dark, felt the spark—that old and trusty hook— when I looked up. 

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Vain Imaginations

One sure-footed day, I chanced to glance sideways and glimpsed a little speck of trouble flying at me from the west.  I ran, I stumbled, I tripped. The earth beneath me slipped, tipping up like a mighty ship  before succumbing to the sea. Someone let the tornadoes out inside my head, the roaring forces smashing […]

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