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“Stars go out when actors die.” More Henry than we ever knew, your haunted blue eyes looking skyward from a father’s coalpit, calling for forgiveness or fame with an omnipotent voice. Smile curled on cynic’s lips: the failed cherubim. Ever-hungry … Continue reading →

He quit the happy hour gang checked his balance and bought a house to fix. At first he started slowly and dozed the yard to mud, left it fallow three years. Then he built a taller fence 2 by 8 … Continue reading →

You throw down the pieces of puzzle without thinking & they all fall a certain way: hands, attitudes, eyes, dreams. Moira–it is useless to explain such configuration where no instructions are ever given. The way these two lovers fit defies … Continue reading →

The grumpy queue shortened. ‘No fat,’ decreed the matron in front of me. ‘No whip,’ cried her friend. ‘Next,’ and a barrista`s what`s-your-pleasure look. ‘Latte,’ I asked and settled for a tall. (Oh the way she pulled the nozzle down and … Continue reading →

Outside, the office exiles like restless puffins kick at the butt-strewn ground anxious for that precious first (in)hale, sacred blue (ex)hale of warm smoke. Human chimneys of white fashion a camaraderie built of matchsticks & lighter fluid comparing notes on … Continue reading →

Nineteenth-century figures walk beside a river basin. Some carry umbrellas and discuss the French weather. Three or four strollers sit down on the bankside watching sailboats: parasol ladies onshore. What could they know of world war, AIDS, or acid rain … Continue reading →

Our lives and any moments or situations you care to name are simply a combination and interaction of three things: process, context, and choice. Life and its many episodes consisting of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and months is nothing more … Continue reading →

From where you stand beside the road, you can almost see the house. Fence slats bow to you & paint curls upon itself~ a mockery of maintenance. Overhead tall spreading trees threaten sun. Strange you never understood what time might … Continue reading →

-1- Sparrows chirp and pluck at scraps of empty gutters -2-                                                                                                                                             An old man leans on a rake and contemplates the dead spring lawn -3- Two lovers pass by their care-less laughter rising from the lane as they disappear from … Continue reading →

grey november sky park benches etched in snow wind strokes the last robin’s wing breath warm & then gone like a memory lovers lost in each other’s eyes we walk beside the river & dream of hibernation ………………………………………………………….. It goes … Continue reading →