He woke her in the blackness of pre-dawn, well before the rising sun, and drove to open field where stars shone in violet sky above horizon rimmed in ambient light of small town beneath world’s meridian. They lain together staring into the Cosmos as stars fell from the heavens all around—blue, green, and orange […]
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Poetry
FOR BEATRICE
One of my favorite things in reading is when, unknowingly, you stumble into an incredible romance. It’s not in story you go searching for, but in search for something else, it is revealed and takes you completely by surprise, drawing you in and refusing to let you break away. Recently, I began reading […]
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LAURELAI
To me, there is something special—spiritual—in experiencing the sun rise and set; something magical in the way, for a moment, the sky is changed and the hidden colors of the sky’s depths show through, and you hold witness before sky changes and sky’s filtered soul is masked again in daytime blue or night. When […]
Short Story
HARVEST FLAME
Brake lights flared in chained effect, slowing as traffic entered into chaff catching and blowing heavy across the road in strong south wind from drawn into low-pressure front approaching from above. Chaff carried, thick and billowing, like smoke, across the highway as red-light brakes and the scattering of approaching white lights, showing yellow through […]
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NEW-LOVE DAWN
He woke to the sense of storm: thunder and low-roll tremors that struck in wave through chest as front drew near. He woke her to the same: with storm that stirred, sent body into tremble; waves of sense that flashed her skies and left behind an after-peace—her still in his embrace—as soft rains fell […]
Poetry
LETTER TO CORINTHIA
I wrote this yesterday replanting a field that failed when conditions were not right. I was looking on the skies and the quote from 1 Corinthians came into my mind: “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; […]
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LOST COVE
“A new world…Free at last! No thanks to God, free at last!”—Aristarchus Jones (Walker Percy), Lost in the Cosmos Day of darkness neared and from cave’s opening Simon studied transept line showing vertical upon the face of the Great Ember, dividing illumination from darkness. In illumination, Simon witnessed storms on the Great Ember billowing […]