A month to the day, we laid my wife’s grandfather to final rest. After, we went to his home one final time in look on all that was there, to divide and spread amongst the families all that might be wanted before the rest was auctioned, given, or thrown away. Outside of his […]
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Short Story
REMAINED
Near to June and morning met with crisp, cool dew feeling near to frost. It was a cool year. Everything grew slower, but also, all grew richer. All grew richer in the time it took, the roots that went down before green and growth grew high, resources and means to sustain when heat and […]
Short Story
HOME AGAIN
Upward in sitting rest, hands and arms in brace behind, Anna’s tongue sped in fast and lightness of flicker to end and tip of his, his body leaning over; fast, swift jostle of her open breasts as he touched her in her spread. Speeding, speeding, speeding, lighter and faster in flicker until deep […]
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A BEAUTIFUL DAY
From kitchen view, they looked on the lawn—small piece of cultured wild; rise of the bluestem in fine, tall stems, pale and near of blue from leaves dark in green; open of the wildflowers bowed in absorb of morning dew, petals and open faces bowed as if contemplative morning prayer, sight rising when sun […]
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STORM SONATA
I listen to my son on the piano. His fingers are light and fluid in airy play like the raindrops in soft fall. He uses the pedals and the sound changes like thunder in the depths of cloud. I sit outside and watch rain fall under cover of porch stoop, rare of lighting’s flash that […]
Short Story
LYRIC SAY
They sat on patio and spoke of songs and music as evening ceded place to night, bright of the sun giving way to porchlight bulbs in stranded hang and stars in the cosmic depths. Song played that they knew, and of it he spoke, “I love sometimes how a whole song builds and […]