“…be my house, strong and sturdy far from town, oh; be my home, just think of all the places we will go…” _____ Year by year, she watched it grow—strawberry patch in runner-spread across the farm place lawn. Begun as three small cuttings, it was summer blanket of layers and levels of green and […]
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CHARTREUSE LEAVES
Anna was beautiful in reposed read, body curl and lie of fit in small of loveseat’s rest; sky-blue shirt and panties, white, legs and face and arms past curl-raised sleeves in light of window sun. Slope of ceiling beams above, rays of sun in fall, all of moment appeared in lead and guide […]
FLASHING LIGHTS
I passed a set of flashing lights this morning on a mostly empty road. A Sheriff’s truck under overpass with no other car around, wondering what I missed—I looked a little closer. Against direction of traffic, walking towards, was a teenage boy—pack strung over single shoulder. From […]
NATURAL-PURE
Like the dawn and light in sky, Anna woke slowly in her rise. In move and pass before kitchen’s window showing amber light, he loved and adored the natural-pure of her morning way: face unmade, freckle-pattern of skin, light, over brow and cheeks and bridge of nose; flat of her waking eyes like sky, […]
SKY-HOME DREAM
Anna gazed on perfect sky of blue and clouds that painted dreams. Gone was the rain, gone was the gray, returned was warmth and light; and of the spirit she returned in own to beckon of farm home; to quiet nights and equal dawns, serenity of place. She felt the pang of heart-desire, […]