Picture couldn’t capture all—details of the sky: amber underbellies of undulant clouds, violet in their folds and space between, slow shift and rearranging, living canvas that was God’s; one which from beginning man has always witnessed but failed to notice now as often as before. The beauty was always there, on days and eves […]
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HUGO
“Do you hope to write like that?” she questioned. “No,” he answered. “I want to write the stories and style that are mine; and not mine, that which I find within me. Still, I love the way he writes, the spirt and wonder that he tells: witness to the ethereal and transcendent […]
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RE-ENTRY
“The options of travel and exile may be exhausted, yet instead of despairing, the traveler may hit upon one last alternative: the return. Why not go back to the very place one left, as a kind of deliberate exercise of freedom?”—Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos _____ Arc of autumn’s splendor peaked and […]
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LOVER’S DAWN
“Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk.”—Victor Hugo, Les Miserables _____ “Let us narrate what was passing in Marius’ thoughts. Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, everything was a vision to him now…” He ended morning’s read upon […]
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NO NAME
“Comes again the longing, the desire that has no name…for a party, for youth, for the good times, for dear good drinking and fighting comrades, for football-game girls in the fall with faces like flowers? Comes the longing and it has to do with being fifteen and fifty and with the winter sun striking […]