Morning creeps in,My head is not ready for it.It glows against the mountainagainst the quiet cloudstinging all things goldenas they brighten to full day… I am not readywanting the landscapes stillof dreamsof downy comforter and bedpillowing my headin sleep, dayless,consciousless… Slowly, relentlesslyday pushes outthe shadows of the house;world sounds,the silence of the head and house… Body nags its …
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Growing Up Civilized
I watch documentaries. I used to watch tv and movies, and read to escape more than to be informed. That was when I was younger, and believed in romance. I devoured fantasy and science fiction because they were colorful and fed my inner life with the stuff of dreams, and required nothing from me. But …
Homestead
It was spring and everything was new–Life and love and everything, and everything we planted grew!The door you’d made was open wide,the scent of new wood on the airthat brought the warmth of spring insideand stirred your soft and tawny hair… Summer came and baby’s laughter rangthrough the vine-thick upper frame,and all the lullabies I sangwhile lower, …
Mystic Whispers:The Wreck of the Faery Galleon
A sailor stands on a quiet deck in the still of a peaceful night–He suddenly sees, like a cobweb-dream, a galleon of faery-light, riggings of gossamer, translucent and pale, looming up high to port. Silently sailing, as if quite alone, as if no more solid than thought– wonder and marvel, afloat on a sea as …
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Apricots Growing Wild
Sweet, sweet, wild fruitin the first heat of the day in the desert… Cool and sweet, unlooked-for treat in the desert morning, an oasis… Nectar, glowing, sweet as light, and chill, from the night. Cool and sweet delight heralded by wasps drunk with pleasure… They do not sting, I do not kill– Sweet truce in …
Animals and Souls
It used to be an assumption, and a very convenient one, at that, that only human beings have that esoteric quality we call ‘soul.’ But how do we recognize a soul? What are its signs in a personality? What assumptions was that assumption built on? Descartes shaped the notion back when Reason was all the …
Mystic Whispers: Icarus in the Sky
Icarus, Icarus, foolish lad! It’s the worst idea you’ve ever hadand there were others I thought were bad! To soar to the stars, you demented bird,takes more than wax wings, or hadn’t you heard?My lad, you have flown to the height of absurd! And yet, and yet, the impulse was grand, though you never considered …
Hubris
A sad reflection on pathological power Thinking about Trump and Nixon, and about that special hubris common to narcissistic and criminal minds… The thing is, criminals think they are smarter than everyone else. They think they can outsmart the rest of the world. They really believe they can get away with anything. They are utterly …
“Millennials are ruining everything!”
I read this article… http://www.businessinsider.com/baby-boomers-caused-millennials-destructive-spending-habits-2017-6 Wow… Millennials are arrogantly having better taste than to eat at Applebees, have the cheek to choose to support small-owner businesses over big corporate chains, and are destructively not buying into the economics that sank their parents’ savings and home equities because the bankers could not be trusted to do …
The Crow
How do I know me?Can I count the ways?No, really, Can I? Ups and downs and ins and outs…so many of methere seem to beI can hardly sort them allkeep them straightgive timeattentionenergyin fair divide… Who speaks? Which one of metodayis most distraughtdetermineddriven by a feeling,by a cause…? Who of myselveschooses what look to wear today,what colorsstylefabrics and designs? …
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