Saturday Night
In the collected humid light of dusk, an orange sun slowly sinks below the hayfield, and we come to the farmhouse in the relief that is...
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- May 12, 2021
- 1 min
Beautiful Things
I sat in the back of the library with my seventeen- year-old friends. With heads down, we flipped through bridal magazines and whispered...
- Apr 7, 2021
- 1 min
The Ritual
I slay my fears and place them on the altar, the last obstacles preventing our union. Though a pagan, I kneel, sing the hymns, pretend to...
- Mar 10, 2021
- 1 min
Making an Entrance
March roared in, a lion breathing snow, ice, wind, and bitter cold as it drug winter along behind, like the hock of a dead animal. It...
- Feb 10, 2021
- 1 min
Renaissance
We are all glaciers as we transform, split, and calf pieces of ourselves. Beliefs fall away. Discarded and outdated, the mind seeks new...
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
Choices
The precariousness of life strikes you only as you move through it. Like a maze with dark alleys and tight turns, it careens out of...
- Dec 7, 2020
- 1 min
Regret
When the path diverges, we must always choose, not knowing if the road untaken will ever present itself again. With the benefit of time...
- Nov 6, 2020
- 1 min
Marking Time
Existing is not living. It is marking hours, hiding in plain sight, pretending nothing is wrong.
- Oct 7, 2020
- 1 min
Permission
We are not allowed to feel the sun warm our face for more than a fleeting moment. We are not allowed to bask in newfound love without...
- Sep 9, 2020
- 1 min
Waves
Love shifts, like a herd of horses drifting over the wide prairie, changing directions as the wind blows.
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
What Remains Unsaid
What remains unsaid rolls out with the tide after parting. Time and distance provide the illusion of safety. But beneath the calm, the...
- Jul 9, 2020
- 1 min
Summer
Summer glides like a vulture surveying its prey; merciless and low, it circles and calculates. Silently, it touches down and cackles as...
- Jun 11, 2020
- 1 min
Resuscitation
Amidst the raw carnage, my beating heart lies still. After their deaths, the chamber drained, empty. But now, distance and time have...
- May 15, 2020
- 1 min
Prairie Storm
The wind whirls the spring storm down the mountain, across the wide valley chased by laden rain clouds. Fat drops splatter on rocks and...
- Apr 8, 2020
- 1 min
Comfort from the Dead
Crocus return each spring to brighten the graveyard. Purple, yellow, white, and pink blossoms open. Small bright shining blossoms face...
- Feb 6, 2020
- 1 min
Unrequited
My love, unrequited, stills and shatters my heart as night lays down its thick woolen death shroud.
- Jan 15, 2020
- 1 min
Buffalo Seasons
Snow swirls through valleys. Trudging through drifts, they forage, surviving winter. Ice melts swelling streams. Earth’s new life sings,...
- Dec 10, 2019
- 1 min
Ghost Ships In the Night
Death stares out at us through the frame with broken glass atop the casket. The remembered face bright and alive, smiles at us a light,...
- Nov 6, 2019
- 1 min
Bitter Lives
Each day we try in vain to spit out the bitter taste of our ordinary lives and fail. Instead, we choke and drown on our own vinegar, too...
- Oct 15, 2019
- 1 min
We All Die Haunted
We all die, haunted by the chances we did not take, the alternative life, unlived. The iron bed rusts from the love we did not make in...
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