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IN THE BRIGHT

               He admired as she worked in light and island open space, fair of her skin in gleam—iridescent in the bright.  Long and lean and fine of hand, dexterous in their labor and working, fair and beauty of rest of her body under buttoned cover of long-sleeve shirt, flash of skin at wrists at sleeve’s […]

FIRE’S BUILD

               They opened door.  Little was changed from last when she was there: order of home, make of the beds, wood’s stack by stove and stone-hearth’s sides.                 All was as she’d left it—waiting—patient for her return.                They carried in their bags and left the front door open.  She desired wild as much as […]

EASTER SEEDS

               Rain fell light from gray-cast sky whose cover slowly thinned in hint of violet from sky-blue through.                Indoors, they looked on its fall, unseen in fine through sky but showing in dimpled strikings cement walks pave of street before their home.                 Indoors, they thought of their garden and the growth that would […]

BREATH OF LIFE

               God created man of clay, her name—from Breath of Life.                First consonant sound in huff-press of breath in speak and escape from lungs in empty changed in soften and smooth of vowel flow, tongue-touch and flicker to roof of mouth in syllable note and consonant flash before last and smooth of feminine end […]