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WRITING SPIRIT
In quiet room, Annie read by light of showing sunrise, golden as it broke, and enrichment of aura from lamp of soft-white glow that, near, illuminated self and page before muting into oneness with room and sun as it dispelled into room beyond. Outside, Annie looked on the shadows of trees silhouetted in […]
NOVEL BEGINNING
Emma was composed in warmth of an autumn love that took and beget as Life, making entry into world under announcement of Perseids’ star-fall and light of colored trails in sky-celestial rain from Heaven onto earth. As with Bethlehem in history told, there are some souls born, modest and unannounced, by world that […]
ARE YOU HAPPY?
“Are you happy?” my seven-year-old asks out of the blue, and it takes me by surprise. We are playing basketball on a Little Tikes hoop at my grandfather’s home. I feed him the ball to slam dunk, but a part of me is distant, and his question draws me back. “What?” I ask, […]
SMALL SUCCESS
He rested on the porch reading with the falling sun listening as crickets and cicadas resumed their songs from night before, their sunfall scratch and cadence that seemed eternal, ever-present in night dying light and eves, building strength as summer days waned, a false forever until—one day—it was gone as becomes to […]
BEGINNING IN AN END (PART II)
In turn of fall and come of summer’s end, he boarded a flight to the west coast where a bus waited and took him to an asphalt tarmac under San Diego sun where, arrived, he was rushed from seat and raced blind into beginning of a new life-chapter. Before departing, she handed him […]
BEGINNING IN AN END (PART I)
From almost-first meeting of eyes, they spent the early of that summer flirting in way known only to the shy, where meekness and caution combined with heart-ambition attribute great sign to what, in truth, is small. In veiled guard, they are expressions still that, to most, appear as nothing and whose discernment of greater […]