Browsing Category: Short Story

IN POISE

               She sat cross-legged in burgundy gown and musings beside the hearth.  Knee of high-crossed leg vertical in pose as under rested folded to floor beneath.  Fall of gown caught and fell in valley of lifted leg.  Nothing beneath, in pose, she showed faint in poise of rest.                She knew he saw.  She didn’t […]

CHOSEN DREAM

        They wrote their stories, made their love, in home amongst the trees.  And from their love, family grew in furtherance of their dream.  Day by day, night by night, seasons into years, a romanced love became their life—never looking back to befores of chosen dream.

FRECKLED BURST

               She was beauty and dream amongst bed of brome.  Her season’s skin, freckled burst like colored and seeded heads across brome sea of green; her eyes, her smile, her aura in the openness, fall of hair that she stroked away in draw of greater focus to her eyes—green and gold as the sea around—and […]

VANITY FAIR

               The desert sky died of flame, orange and yellow fire tempered and from which told the stars, the Milky Way upon its side, pale-glowed road and trail across time and the heavens.                They watched sky die.  They watched sky cool.  The watched The Way appear.  After, they turned in.                Adobe home in […]