Stories, poetry, narratives of true experience, and guests who have moved me.
thoughts
A face, a fate
I am in a band that plays the odd local date. Churches, bars, gatherings and the like. A couple of months ago, after we had finished our setting up to play for an evening in the town tavern, we sat down for dinner and a drink. When the waitress came to our table, I felt […]
MoreActing my age
From decades of borrowed wakefulness and broken sleep, this body gives way. The hated alarm faces the wall. Last night’s dreams of peace unfolded over fourteen unmedicated hours. This afternoon, with morning coffee, I take the two steps down to the garden, descending into green rest. I understand fewer things now. I repeat small stories, […]
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There must be some mistake,I think, but it’s been days now. These messages from you, a thirty four year old stranger. And I say, and I say to myself there are lots of crazies on the internet. Lots of gold diggers. People who will say anything under cover of anonymity. And so, you started with […]
MoreA silent fool is none the wiser.
uncomplaining drudge with hangdog look cultivated trudge martyr’s walk will Heaven prize you? ah but the heart is known so cast aside your props and take tutelage from the angels of every day.
MoreA pearl
behind a Reception sign, someone sits. writes with her left hand, moves a mouse with her right, speaks into a headset enunciating clearly, succinctly, concisely. all this with a face of placidity, serenity, slightness of smile. i see an earring of pearl. i think of Nirvana. i think of Vermeer. her dancing eyes make art […]
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