The absolute value of x is x sometimes usually always? This is as true today as perhaps eons ago I’ll admit that I have trouble with x It’s like a tall, masked Zoro but is it just a letter or an imposter for a number? If a number line reaches into infinity is it a … Continue reading
Ghost Dancing with Dead Cousins
I was quite open to summoning your deceased cat even to calling in the Dead Files to seek the secrets harbored by our house I didn’t object to the large sage plant fumigating every room seeping into silent shadows herbal delight spirit fright! And wasn’t it I the fearless, fanatic searching out the perfect shaman … Continue reading
Absence
The oppressor dark clad oozing malice enters here at the mouth of the alley watching, waiting as time yawns carelessly on a nonchalant afternoon Three blocks down students spill from school scattering like racing inkblots from a fifth period essay left unfinished Two girls turn a corner go down the alley drinking up youth’s spicy … Continue reading
Wrestling the Blue
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Correspondence
“The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind,” Maria Montessori. A letter and a packaged for me arrived a few days ago from one of my students in China. He is a superbly intelligent ten-year-old with a heart of gold. Continue reading
Tribute to Yeats
“When you are old and gray and full of sleep and nodding by the fire… ” I will take the book from your shaky hands and read then become the silk-sewn voice from your memory. I will help you see through your cloudy eyes, the pureness of heart, the beauty of spirit. As you nod … Continue reading
Thursday poetry and short story competition #4 : the results!
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Thursday poetry and short story competition #4
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Voyage
So the myth unfolds here From pages marred with brushstrokes of ocean The beleaguered boat sloshing to shore In a brawny gyre Upon these waves, the tossed dreams of eons The toll of battles Stifled cries and sunken jewels The soft copper of your hair Streams from the mast Of a pirate ship As you … Continue reading
The Tan Man
The tan man from Violent Shadow Magazine writes in hieroglyphics and speaks in the glib tongue of entertainment. His lean shadow shimmers in neon and strikes a black mark upon the city streets. The essence of him lingering long after the night has captured and sealed the evidence. Tan man ferrets out a news story … Continue reading