Puff Piece
A canopy of cumulus projection aligns itself enticingly and spills its cotton candy succulent confection across the canvas of the Texas hills. A viewer, from the vantage of a hammock, anticipates the daily matinee with …
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All is Calm
Though headlines clamor, voices blare and bitter arguments abound in every fearful sector where the chaos of the world is found, each hibernating embryo refuses to restrain its flow of love beneath the silent snow. …
On Filaments and Firmaments
Every night when Lady Lunabeams across the wooded steepafter daily clamor dwindlesand the children fall asleepEmma comes to tend the garden,kiss the flowers, and communewith the fairies, imps, and pixiesfrolicking beneath the moon. Emissaries of …
Because …
Because of what you do for me, I’m looking at the mystery of life and death through cloudless eyes as waves of gratitude arise like billows on the sea. Though once a hollow absentee, because …
Confidant
How often can we truly claim a friend who’ll give, without embarrassment or pride, immeasurable love, and take in stride our failures, overlooking ways we’ve sinned against the name of friendship; one who’ll spend each …
Unseen
When Hope has nowhere else to go through withering attacks, she gathers strength from roots below to rise between the cracks. When Patience, buffeted by wind is prone to pull up stakes, he finds the …
Grandma’s Chest
An envelope within an envelope was neatly folded in the bottom drawer among the linens, fancy bar of soap and empty picture frame, with nothing more. A graduation photo and embossed announcement once had …
Calling
I have fulfilled my purpose when I cease to wonder … Why am I here? Am I doing this right? What does tomorrow hold? … when I can sit in stillness and lose all sense …