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               They worked together under openness of arrived spring sky and in affections of season’s sense—the warmth of the sun and a cool in the wind as sky spoke in airy songs of birds around.  Together, they toiled in labor that renewed, rather than exhausted, spirit.                With shovel, they turned earth, softened tilth with […]

        As quickly as their season shone, the blossoms fell away; and in their departure, a melancholy settled as happens to spirits inclined and to weigh value in beauty when circumstance and appearance change.  Through her lament—unspoken but discerned—he comforted; showing by his own means that beauty is not a gifted purpose in and […]

               Spring returned and, with its change, blossoms’ coloring of trees: white and pastel roses, yellows, and further delicate hues.  In appearance of sign, petals and flowers spread in tender loveliness, he returned to a memory.                He wondered if she still dressed as spring, loose and flowing gowns in flower print, colors of life […]

               “Often…they would sit together under the stars, recalling the ages that were gone and all their joys and labours in the world, or holding council, concerning the days to come.  If any wanderer had chanced to pass, little would he have seen or heard, as it would have seemed to him only that he […]

               Tessa slept late in the fullness of day before, and when she woke, life greeted through open window frame.  Through the window, cool, scent, and light of spring flowed filling room with waking spirit told in sounds of birds on branch and blossom of boughs beyond.  Immersed, Tessa rose and stood before the open […]

              There are always signs of fronts, competition for skies and dominion of all beneath: a change in wind, a crease in sky, clouds layered on anther as one ascends and another is made low.  Reacting, heavens circle in spin and reformation, adjustment, the shift.  Then, when conflict in clouds become beyond heavens’ bearing, Hell […]

               “But even as hope died in Sam, or seemed to die, it was turned to a new strength.  Sam’s plain…face grew stern, almost grim, as the will hardened in him, and he felt through all his limbs a thrill, as if he was turning into some creature of stone and steel that neither despair […]

               “Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun…for this is thy portion in life.”—Ecclesiastes 9: 9                Day began in glimmer of silver frost and ended in flame of setting salmon sky.  In the cold of dawn, they warmed […]

               They fished together from bank of the farm pond dam.  Above, sky shone free and blue with wisps that seemed celestial mirage as air filled with birdsong notes enlivened in the glory of the sun.  Between Emma and Ryan, there held a quiet peace.                 Beneath her feet, it seemed the brome cover of […]

               Dawn began without announcement of light, a grey cloud filled the valley, cool and damp, and through open door and windows of small cabin, they held beneath covers of a bed as fire burned in dampened steel stove.                 From open sky above in star-filled night, morning and world were changed in arrival of […]