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YELLOW-BLUE
Tent of her nipples through summer shirt, raised and drawn in cool of April morn’s yellow-blue; bare of her legs in length and light, hip drawn and edged in yellow of sun, front shadowed in before; hold of their hands, fingers’ interlock, prints’ press into hand back of the other; smiles of lips and […]
DECIDED AND DETERMINED
Christ was risen. The tomb was empty. All the world rejoiced (or hated, or denied—such compelled every soul to choose a side); but that was day ago, and Monday was new. What now? What to make and live of it all? Did she still believe, or was such just a day; […]
PARALLELS AND CROSSINGS
“I write few tortuous stories,” he shared as they walked along city street. “ I write few twists and fewer turns—plots upended or changed of an unexpected…Mostly, they are attention to a present, or simple plot, foreshadowed, linear and parallel of lives that never cross.” “Why is that? Doesn’t it get boring, writing […]
UTILITARIANISM
“Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what Jesus had done began to believe in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, ‘What are we going to do? This […]
VOLDEMORT’S DESIGN
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reding them.”—Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 _____ “Do you still like Harry Potter?” he asked. “I’m learning and won’t pretend to understand hierarchy of loyalties in what world terms liberal minds. Are you allowed to love what you love, […]