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TROUBLED THOUGHT
3AM, I’ve been up since one. I went to bed at eleven. Mind wouldn’t still, and so I’m up. Not a bad dream, just thoughts that won’t leave and I wrest with them now alone. I smoke a cigar, listen to the night, look out on lawn and street lamped road illumed […]
RIVER’S WHISPER
He imagined Ozark ridge and valley, trail woven to their sides; ochre dust in plume to steps in change of earth in arrive of summer’s hot and dry; stain of the dust as powdered dye to shoes, socks, and pants’ cuff-low; sound of the wind at top of ridge, silence of the […]
CHILDREN’S BOOK
She watched her daughter on play on floor on dig, search, and scatter of books from basket where they kept. Viewing, she thought how life was full of stories and, like stories and books in basket’s store, she wondered which ones in life she would choose: to read, to […]