In match of lips, they lit as candle flame; flutter and dance of heart and eyes’ light wavering to sudden change in air and energy around; the following-flicker and chase of kiss—wax and wane of fire and burn before softening in settled flame—seeking, again, one with kindle’s source; then, finding, the hold and still […]
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CRADLE OF THE WORLD
They were young and poor and much in love, and what they lacked in material things, they accounted for in dreams and lived affections so that—in their poverty of things—they lived perhaps more richly than those that seem to have it all. To escape into dreams—to travel as they called it—they walked together […]
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THROUGH A DISTANCE
There was rejuvenation in the sun; in the songs of birds on wind, and, too, in breeze through woods; in the miles underfoot, breath finding and settling into rhythm, in the strain of beginning run and the loosening and settling in of body the longer that you kept; how mind matched with flesh and […]
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TRANSFIGURATION
“And after six days Jesus taketh unto him Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: and he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as snow…and as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud […]
Short Story
SHAME
“For thy soul be not ashamed to say the truth. For there is a shame that bringeth sin, and there is a shame that bringeth glory.”—Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 6: 24-25 I was young and foolish; vain in the chase and ways of the world who, when things went wrong, perceived great tragedy; and of […]
Short Story
IMPERFECTLY
“The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”—Vincent van Gogh “Are you good at that?” she asked. “Not every day,” he answered, “but, still, I try—even when I fail.” She smiled with compassion in countenance, an empathy for […]