The trees seem thin, shedding the leaves they’ve been burdened with and follow the season plan. All stands still and….FLASH. A deer hurtles past, flits past tree slits the light has lit. Skinny and slight as the bright, turns straight toward my sight STOPS. Holds her pause- as if to cause- the pops and swush […]
Read more "Close Encounter"He stands bravely, silent as stone. People about: milling, talking tour guides speaking, children walking. – Face set like flint, toward the unknown. while children squeal—a happy sound chase one another, dive to the ground. – Straight as a pillar, white as bone as darkness drapes the evening sky, fireworks snap! Bursting and high. – […]
Read more "Guardian"I gobbled life voraciously, assuming each unending bit for me. For free. I still bite eagerly, but recently each piece seems heaven’s costly peace. – – – Photo by Ana M.: https://www.pexels.com
Read more "There was a time"He kneels before me both arms wide begging for clemency again— like he didn’t know the pay plan. – eyes trained on me, as if I’m tied to some special code of kindness, overriding sense with blindness, – as if some mercy should divide him from his failures, change his ways, forgive his debts for […]
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