All Posts By: Byron McCoy

IN THE HEAT

               Craving summer still, but not wishing life away, they made the most of winter day in refuge and rest from cold by fire hearth in among amongst the trees.                Sky was blue and shone in layered, varied shades that lightened of blue into near white as others shaded darker, holding threads of red, […]

FIRST AND FOREVER

               It was way his mind always remembered, choiced landmark in time and reference of a life: she in the wild, summer dress, free and embodiment of season’s spirit; stripe of tan over shoulder tops in widen and spread in fall to front, full sight in hide under cover of the dress; the freckles of […]

MILESTONE

               I turn forty today—one of those birthdays with a zero at the end that are made to be a milestone.  Whether it is or isn’t, like most in life, it’s what we choose to make it.                I wake at the same time (actually slept in—started my day only a few minutes before five).  […]

GIFTING

               Sky blue-pink warmed into rose above yoke spill of morning sun spreading gold beneath cloud hue in quiet, meek of dawn’s begin to winter day.                Another day, a mark of year, trip around the sun.  She came to him in heart of home, room of romance hue.  She dressed in gown of ivory […]