As Each Day Arrives
As each day arrives, he will open up his mind.
To the suffering and joy he sees in all of humankind.
She does not know what will happen, as the world spins around.
Fear arises, love comforts, he knows no …
slice of life
Sometimes
Sometimes They tell you things you need to hear
Sometimes They tell you things you shouldn’t hear
Sometimes They won’t be quiet at all, even if you don’t understand
Sometimes You wish others could hear, but they’re listening to themselves…
Deity
Travelling by train from Paris to Milan,
Spooked and saddened from too much movement;
My uneasy rest was cut short by the customs official demanding my passport
I had been in one of those sleeps which do not let go …
Seventy-Five Cents
Grew up on Indianapolis’ southeast side, near the now-vanished Twin-Aire Drive-In. Moved to Bloomington where the Hoosier hippies were, then moved to Ohio. Been in Maine since 2012. My novel RUSTY got
Dead Man’s Shoes
He bought the shoes on a Monday, I think.
The store was pretty crowded, but he found them right away.
9EEE. The perils of wide feet.
These are pretty comfortable, he thought.
The shoes came home in their box, as
Workhorse Woodies
These days Woodies are collector cars restored to pristine condition. This wasn’t always the case. There was a time when Woodies were filled with ladders, lumber, bags of cement and buckets of paint. This is a tale of those strange …
Fireflies
Stella Omega
My daughter was a stay-awake baby. Sometimes, to shorten the process, we would load her in the car and drive out into the lyrical Pennsylvania countryside, watching the colors of night gather in the sky, the green trees …