All Posts By: Byron McCoy

OFF-START

               Morning started off.  I believed it could be (and still can), but it isn’t the best start.                5:30, alarm set by my daughter goes off.  She sleeps through, but her little brother, one room over, doesn’t.  Awake, he comes out and asks if he could take a shower.                Seeing no reason or […]

BASEBALL HOME

               I love being a baseball home, the basket by back door specific for balls and gloves—designated by our matriarch—and how, being boys, we often fall short in order and organization, even with guidance, and how our gloves are most often rest by whichever door last used to go outside and play, symbol and sign […]

NUANCE

               Night arrived, end of day, she was alone and home was still.  Home was quiet in peace that settled and came in last moment of day’s live before submission of wake’s will back to the realm of dream.                In quiet of night-settled peace, she rested in seat alone, wooden chair at head of […]

COOL

        I’m sitting in our middle school parking lot beside a snowed over track and field.  My son Matthew met with a friend and is going for a mile run, not on track but cleared parking lot (an audible with reality and conditions on the ground).           He came to honor a […]

NIGHT OWL

               Full moon over snow, whole of night scene glowed: round full white of the winter moon, silver halo, bright in ring, dimming softly outward into an infinite above snowed earth in pale, fair blue brighter than the silver sky.                In a tree by window’s view, owl rested in its crown.                Anna gazed […]