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CAYMUS
Candles burned in the red brick hearth. Hearts of their white bodies glowed yellow-pure through translucence of heat-softened skin. Drunk of the wine took warm in flesh, taste saying on her lips tongue, both savored in his kiss. He laid her body before the light—skin and heart as candles’ own. Lifting gown […]
CIGAR THOUGHT: 2/21/26
An hour earlier, sun is brighter this evening as I settle onto porch. Today was cold and windy. It was the same a few minutes ago, but it is calm now. Maybe it’s direction of the breeze and break of the house between, or maybe it’s really died and lessened down. My […]
INFINITE
High of joy overcame in her knowing change and new were near—beginning move and manifest of vision-dream that she desired. Knowing it was near, imagination made more fully: details and nuance—spirit and mood—of change and new to define home, floor, and rooms. She saw it all, felt it all—seer by bloodline magic: […]
CIGAR THOUGHT: 2/21/26
Last (and maybe first) cigar of the month, lengthening days, warmed in flannel, I sit with evening sky. My throat is already scratchy and achy from coaching a morning full of basketball games. What harm is a cigar on top and to wind day down? Evening’s colder than they’ve been. Winter is […]
LIVING SEASONS
Winter was near to end. He dreamt of the farm. He dreamt of spring—of summer and autumn too; of her fair of skin at spring’s begin; the way it changed, like woods and world, in live of the follow-seasons: fairness given color-tan; freckles, like dappled flowering of flesh, breaking on her skin; colors […]
PAST OUR ANGER
Do you ever stop and think how so many of life’s blessings, gifts, and breakthroughs begin of moments that seem anything but these. I witnessed one this week. Wednesday, Ash Wednesday, we went as a family to evening mass. Our youngest had baseball just before in the gym of our church’s school. […]