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Seeds of Initiation
In my experience, whether into darkness or into light, there is always a seed—always—but my soil may not be in a condition for the seed to germinate. Years may pass before the seed is ready to open. And so in all my experiences there are hidden initiations waiting to show deeper and more powerful and more beautiful […]
Read More...Return
RETURN The two of them grew old together like gnarled grapevines interlaced When he began to fail she kept him living. Her twisted fingers shaved his stubble and then we’d have to ask her what his winding gabble meant. She always knew So much so that when he died she couldn’t bear to have him […]
Read More...Divorce Rate in the Northwest
Divorce Rate in the Northwest What these mountains had to give we’ve turned into crates for overseas No wonder we keep missing each other cry words, words and choose dust or nails for breakfast What these mountains had to give we’ve subdivided into wide closets and no basements The dog chained in back […]
Read More...Parting
PARTING Time was when love was all we needed We believed each other’s lies Through belief somehow they’d rise to the occasion So we defined each other to be ourselves and we were simply good to ourselves Was it too much to love at any cost? But then we could play the lover’s part […]
Read More...The High Field
The High Field What I thought of as solid rock gets lost here in silent dense morning fog of a mountain field where my feet are out on their own among grass and stone Yet sunrise off a peak ignites the air dazzling through mist and skin and I can hold nothing back from this […]
Read More...The Queen Who Laid an Egg
Once upon a time there was a queen who wanted to have a child. But she didn’t know how. Still, she wished and thought and wanted it so much that one day she laid an egg. And with nothing better to do she decided to sit on it. What a long boring time, just sitting, […]
Read More...Patrick the Pirate
A long time ago in the Caribbean Sea, where every sailor steers clear of the Dry Tortugas, lived a pirate boy named Patrick. His mother, his brother and his father were all pirates, but sometimes Patrick fell into dreams. And this morning he dreamed of the prettiest, most beautiful girl in the Seven Seas and […]
Read More...Two Cherry Trees
This wagon train was formed in the mid 1840s for the trek to Oregon. Like most, it was formed of various families who found each other more or less good company. But unlike most, it was formed late in the season. To make up for lost time they were on the trail each day at […]
Read More...Sideway Boy
SIDEWAYS BOY by Eugene Marckx In a time that circles with the changing faces of the moon this story is always happening. A boy. Why is it a boy? Could it be a girl for once? But this was a boy¾born to trouble. Oh, yes, plenty of people tried to wish it all away, […]
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