All Posts By: Byron McCoy

WITHDRAWAL

               He is edgy, quick to anger.  We speak and explain control measures, our reasons and agrees, then when the limit’s reached—he asks for more again.                It’s only a screen, virtual world and games, but it messes with his mind.  He’s the same with his phone (as I often am, too, as well).  His […]

MORE THAN NOTHING

               All they day, they stayed indoors reading, writing, loving, and lounging as moods and inspirations came.  They watched the world outdoors in change from return of sun in a sky clear-blue.  It melted the ice from adorn of trees, tinkle sound of warmth loosened sickles in fall from boughs to shatter and scatter over […]

SILVER DREAM

               From the night and long-made love, they woke to silver dream: sun in rise through clear of blue, ice-glisten on the trees and white of snow beneath.                Through window view, they gazed on the wonder as, awakened and warmed, they returned to love enveloped in down throw-cloud.

AS THE WRITTEN WORD

               In night and dark and storm’s sustain in blow, they read by fire and candled light; fire in hearth room’s greatest source but, too, the light of candles in illume and cast onto close and near beside.                Wind blew faint in room from draught-stir and current draws of touching warmth and cold.                […]

WINTER CHANGE

               Returned to home from fall of snow, door closing fast behind, they rid their gloves and loosened boots then made for high vault room ascending fast the climb of stairs into openness of the space; sky window’s light in dim from ice and snowfall cover, room different in ambiance change as layer by layer, […]

WINTER INNOCENCE

               She felt as a child once again, levitous and free, as they walked in the open air and fall of winter snow; cold of the flakes rouging in touch and melt of cold and body’s rise-answer of inner warmth to surface painting cheeks and bridge of nose.                She held to his hand, each’s […]

GOOD WINTER

               There were worse things than to be snowed and wintered in, wintered more than snowed as it was sleet and ice that scratched on the wind in blow from west sounding on cabin’s wooden walls and panes of glass and amassed on lawn and bowed bodies of the trees.                 It was reason that […]

MORNING GRATITUDES

               I begin my morning writing letters.                 Not knowing what else to write, I start with gratitudes.                Last night, my daughter gave me a hug.  I didn’t know I needed it—but she did, and she helped me feel loved and better.                This morning, in letter, I return the love.                All Christmas […]

GOALS (IF NOT RESOLUTIONS)

        Second day’s end to a new year, I’ve yet to make a resolution.  Is it laziness?  Indifference?  Is it necessary?         I sit on the porch smoking what’s left of a cigar from yesterday.  I’m frugal, and sitting on porch in the winter cool and moisture, it burns better today than day before.  Like me, […]

STORY’S CHANGE (A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT)

               “’You like to tell true stories, don’t you?’ he asked, and I answered, ‘Yes, I like to tell stories that are true.’                Then he asked, ‘After you have finished your true stories sometime, why don’t you make up a story and the people to go with it?’                ‘Only then will you understand […]