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GIFTINGS

               Gentle.                Gentle.                She woke to the delicate and intention of his touch in trace along her line.  High to low, low to high; in upward path, stronger but still-soft press that split her warmth, its gift of sense upon his touching trace.                Sensing, receiving, she rested in the feel; soft smile […]

LIGHTED WOODS

               “Thank you for the lightness I feel in the times we speak,” he shared as they traipsed slow through the winter woods.  Suspend of mist veiled depth of view and made quiet their steps in fall onto sodden leaves of the understory.  “I feel safe and trust, and when I do—I hope, which means […]

MAYBE ONLY FRONT

               He read the passage once again as he came to it in story’s page:                “She paused.  She was making two discoveries.  One was that you didn’t have to talk in complete sentences.  People didn’t seem to need more than a word or two to make their own sense of what you said.  The […]

PEOPLED OUT

        Worn out.           Peopled out.         Tired.         He rested alone in recliner chair.         Laundry machine whirred and zipper, button, or loose change from pocket clinked in the dryer’s run.  He didn’t want the sound.           He wanted silence.  He rose and shut […]

SECRET BELIEF

               She walked the park in evening hour of yellow light’s begin, ethereal of time and scene that brought her into pause, wonder, and thought that perhaps this world, in hour then, was no more than compose of one’s own dreams.  For if the world was of her dream, she could imagine a truer light, […]