Did you see the fog slip away? As night chased by day, she went Though three days she held the world In her grip and slid in shifts But never loosened nor lifted By the most slight of breezes That might have pushed her loose from us. But no, she held, as Dickens would haveContinue reading “Did You See the Fog Slip Away”
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Ink’s Dance
Ink carries so much weight Embedded in its strokes and flourishes, Laboring under our love and our war, Straining under our disordered dis-ease, Curbing our wildness to its purpose. “Speech! Speech!” we thunder. “Hear. Hear,” it rejoins in elegant serenity. The dance of its law brings us to pointe There our whirling chaos becomes aContinue reading “Ink’s Dance”
Spark
Where does darkness end and light begin? This ever-blurring microscopic edge of dawn intrudes onto our concept of right and wrong. How does night exist within the circle of dawn’s existence? Even the thought drives light, brings light, Births light in the darkest moment and there – light. One particle of glimmer, of spark, ofContinue reading “Spark”
This Sea
This sea is decidedly of an autumn tone – Insistent in its abuse of the beach – Lashed by its mate the wind. Even the gulls are muted by their din. The sun and sky and green-gold fields around me Still speak of summer in like tones of the gulls— Muted and beginning to loseContinue reading “This Sea”
RootsRewound 