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IN THE GLOAM
In last of night, Annie rose finding him in rest at table, open page, nothing written, a stillness to his being. He heard her steps, felt her presence, acknowledged, but kept focused in the still. “What are you waiting on?” Annie asked. “The sun,” James spoke plain. Beyond frame and pane […]
WISDOM OF SOLOMON
Outside, frost covered the waking world, browns made silver, greens the same, and for a time there was only the gleam and not the under depression, drab, of winter’s touch. Light carried into room, glimmer and gleam the same and window-framed ray that reached in band between them. “What’s wrong?” Annie asked, […]
WRITING SLUMP
I’m in a bit of a writing slump. It happens often when we struggle to read, dream, or live that which inspires; when one overworks old veins, or tries to force ideas and themes by power of will rather than tell a simpler story that wants shared. I’ve found, sometimes, the best stories/works we […]
TRANSACTION OF SIGNS
“…the self becomes itself only through a transaction of signs with other selves…”—Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos _____ Is a self a self without another to show and share itself to? Maybe that’s a reason, in our isolation or fear of open, honest expression—a society of consumption, imitation, but little true creation; […]