There’s gridlock going on, my friend;my thoughts are jumbled up against themselves,a rush hour traffic-jam that’s been running on fumes. There’s no service stations in my immediate future;at least none that I can find on any map. There’s bumper-to-bumper now, my friend;my brain’s got clogged up,cast-off incomplete thoughts of ideas,scattered n’ strewn across the pavement,grasped... Continue Reading →
My first shark, still coming of age and less, tail to face, than a yard, made any other rite of passage for ten-year-old me as unnecessary as this brutal act itself. Flailing on the boat’s deck with the seizure of suffocation, its sandpaper skin chaffed and scraped my leg red as the embarrassments of boyhood... Continue Reading →
We build these boundaries along the way despite being born, like me, on perfect ground. Sometimes our voyage can lead us astray. We flee our homes for hearts that don’t betray when our fate drifts and carries us aground. We build these boundaries along the way. We thrive where the sun torches skin and clay... Continue Reading →
I let the chickens out to run free in the field and saw a cardinal trapped inside the coop I built myself from wooden posts painted green and hexagonal wire of lighter gauge. She flew fearfully from mesh to mesh crashing into the fence then tumbling back and didn’t see the open door. There was... Continue Reading →
