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“God apportions things.  He is there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of his great stars…Love each other well and always.  There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other.”—Victor Hugo, Les Miserables _____                It was day of kind that oft […]

               It was a Sunday afternoon of unseasonable mid-November warmth. Amidst its moment, they walked together, not in autumn present but in dream of spring, as yellow leaves lined the way of streets and lanes as accent color in a grey-cast world, despite energy of warmth and light.                 “Do you believe in energies?” he […]

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”—T.S. Eliot _____                They shared the morning light together, each in read as yellowing of golden sun filtered through opened blinds in slant and cast through open room, nearing winter’s cool outside, lawn and lingering drape of leaves […]

               After frost and grey of their day in Annie’s hometown, skies cleared and warmth restored.  Through passage of the front, days and winds, autumn’s height in the hills and uplands was mostly passed but in the bottomlands beneath that held to river and its flats, the woods—different—were entering fullness of show and splendor.                […]

               James’ day ran long, his work late, and by the time he returned to home Annie was already in bed; reading on its spread in loose grey sweatshirt with soft-lined plush that felt as fleece in warmth and cover of her skin beneath.  She wore shorts that covered her waist and ended high on […]

        James and Annie spent an hour, disappearing amongst aisles of dreams free to anyone who sought.  Shelf upon shelf, aisle after aisle—neatly arranged more so than any of beginning writing mind, catalogued neatly arranged and composed in an order that was mundane, but efficient, and—once you learned to work within its order—aided in […]