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RESTLESS MIND
Anna felt his heartbeat’s change to strong in sudden restless of her mind, the way her own began in beat, nerves’ tremble under skin; sudden loss in aware and focus to anything but him. She listened to his breathing’s change—slow, heavy, and deep—and felt her own in matched response before their ever touch; […]
ECLECTIC
Anna dreamt of country home and place, place not of wilds but one of lived and cultivated color. Colors of land, leaves of the trees through seasons and change, pastures and garden in bloom—eclectic in source hues; coalesce of divergences brought together by history and living of a place, lineages of name, lineages of […]
REFINE OF A NAME
Through years and age, the stories changed and so too did the name. Maturing of themes, refine of the tell, old ideas written again so that feeling and message told more true, Annie became Anna; and he thought of further change as in refine of retell he better saw who it was he imagined […]
WAY OF REACH
My mind is tired. I sit on the porch in the evening time. Thoughts don’t form. Nothing clears. Nothing focuses. Sometimes, this too is prayer—when without words or thought, we quiet enough to finally listen. And so I do. Miracle. Through wall, my son plays […]
FAILURE
I failed. I failed yesterday to finish a field—I buried the planter in mud after dark with forty acres left in ground that was dry “on top.” I failed to make it to the start of my son’s baseball game for his he and his team […]