Dear Louise, I want you to know It’s okay here at the corner of Arbor & Third where the English ivy vines and cannas warble praises of one stoic summer. The seasons run like blue veins pockmarked by calendar time each year bleeding into the next broken arteries. Sometimes I dwell in the hallway where … Continue reading
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Bonfire of the Rebels Pt. 2
We went out to the Dunes Apartments. Gar dimmed, then cut the lights. We blackened our faces, hoisted the gas can and walked in the dark all the way out to where the bonfire was waiting, dry and thirsty. It was autumn in Texas, but the night air was still plenty sticky. “Do you think … Continue reading
Bonfire of the Rebels Pt. 1
Late August 1981 and the hot breath of summer was still beating down the back of my neck as I loaded up the 1964 T-bird and headed off to college. I had grasped the grizzly hand of Destiny and decided to join my friends who were two years ahead of me in the Phi Sig … Continue reading
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Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt send me to dream beneath this tragic sky brace my racing thoughts against the fevered wash of a spring rain light the heavens with vengeance as your wild beating echoes across these blazing plains Continue reading
At Burnished Island
The cove beckons me to the sea it is really further than it appears We jinxed this thing there is truly no honeymoon just a wasted woman squeezing lemons in a timeshare skirting the coast the tourists arriving in colorful speculation a rusty bus heading downtown to the markets Peddlers scream all they know buying … Continue reading
Lone Wolf
This narrow passage harbors the path of the lone wolf wise beyond eons but empty of fight now A symphony of days gathers as leaves scatter to the centers of the four corners of a wind plagued land Lone wolf, long in the tooth cautious with the remnants of tribal secrets once chanted by medicine … Continue reading
