I’m sitting in our middle school parking lot beside a snowed over track and field. My son Matthew met with a friend and is going for a mile run, not on track but cleared parking lot (an audible with reality and conditions on the ground). He came to honor a […]
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NIGHT OWL
Full moon over snow, whole of night scene glowed: round full white of the winter moon, silver halo, bright in ring, dimming softly outward into an infinite above snowed earth in pale, fair blue brighter than the silver sky. In a tree by window’s view, owl rested in its crown. Anna gazed […]
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I sit in porch smoking cigar. Cold’s not bad in light of the sun. I feel like I’ve done a lot, though I couldn’t give a definition of just what that “a lot” has been—one of those feelings of slow and steady working that’ll maybe suddenly materialize in outcome after slogging with little to […]
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DISTANT DREAM
She thought of golden aspens then, their sight through sky of light-fall snow, faint grey of sky in the falling down and in the clear of after-blue. She dreamed a mountain meadow, aspens’ stand at open’s edge, cast of shadow beneath gold’s bright and brilliance’s give to darkness in mountain’s ascent into the […]
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RECOGNITION
He thought of her dark and wide-set eyes in look unique to her alone and which he’d never found in face or designing of another: a strange and suppressed comeliness, subtle beauty, becoming more apparent the longer one allowed their eyes to see and that, like her spirit, aloof and quiet, made him imagine […]
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A TEST
Another test: in a few weeks, we are going skiing. Over the time: it’s Valentine’s Day, it’s Court Warming for our two Freshmen, Audrey has a friend that is having birthday where “everyone will be there.” She doesn’t want to go on the trip. Personally, I don’t care what she does. If […]
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VR
I’m sitting in my reading chair in the office. I read a bit, but I think I’m done. Quiet and mood are gone. Beneath me, bedroom beneath, my son is on a VR and I can hear him talking and squealing and making noises for something I do not, and have no care to, understand. […]
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RUMOURS
“And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places: Now all these are […]