In Your Absence
In your absence, I explore the soaked beaches alone and watch the skies drench the cottage roof with tinkling music. In your absence, I...
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- Aug 20, 2019
- 1 min
For Whom the Angels Mourn
During the long hot days, stone-faced angels stand guard over their monuments until sunset. They watch as the mourners walk slowly...
- Aug 20, 2019
- 1 min
Brave
We are all small boats cutters, sloops, schooners bobbing in personal safe harbors. Beyond the spit end, jagged piled rocks, the...
- Jun 27, 2019
- 1 min
The Prayer
As I shaved her head what remained of her hair fell softly, like her tears. After the treatments, it had fallen out in clumps, long...
- May 28, 2019
- 1 min
Bitter Fiction
We write the bitter fictions of our lives to escape the crushing disappointment of our reality. The pages swallow our rage so that our...
- Apr 17, 2019
- 1 min
Iron Spine
When I was young, my iron spine gleamed as I stood in the stream and resisted the current. Time passed, and I still stand but the current...
- Mar 29, 2019
- 1 min
At the End
At the end flesh melts from bone, the earth becomes dust again in the eye of the great sun. At the end steel breaks, rocks crumble,...
- Feb 27, 2019
- 1 min
The Bachelor
He lived a bachelor without indoor plumbing except for the kitchen sink where he filled the wash basin and shaved in front of the mirror...
- Jan 9, 2019
- 1 min
It's Always Darkest in Suburbia
Its always darkest in suburbia. Metal sentries stare through clear lenses, guarding postage stamp cookie cutter cracker boxes. False...
- Jan 9, 2019
- 1 min
The Great Wheel
The city rises like spikes on a polygraph, steel, granite, concrete piercing gray clouds like needles. Far below, spokes in the American...
- Jan 9, 2019
- 1 min
On Diaphanous Wings
Everyday she writes the book, adding days, years, memories until pages can no longer contain her. Now, like a mystical being she takes...
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