You are brown as acorns. Trees change beyond your door. Trees bend beside your door. You are old woman now. Fat old cat sits in the garden Below the tree and the hanging begonia. You hear the wind as smooth as powder. The cat never moves: the cat is in visions. Papayas, […]
Read more "YOU ARE OLD WOMAN NOW"I would bring you this and that if only it would last. But this is this: saying goodbye where the grass grows highest. The orchids dead below our feet, like tombs we weight their brown and black. They’re dead you say. It’s more than that. It’s all the plans we […]
Read more "DETAILS"All day a clear sky. And then suddenly (it seems) at four o’clock— A fleet of thin, white clouds trespasses from the north. Stealthy and silent—ethereal submarines in the sky— They slowly, steadily head south. Slow-going, more keep coming. Infiltrating the vast blue. Gathering gradually—and in no hurry—they pass under the radar. Underneath the sun. […]
Read more "LOW THE COWS"The crabgrass was sunk under the bayou dew. Imprinted about were lazy logos: brown blooms of the orchid, puttyroot. Somewhere, far off, sang a child trapped in a woman’s body. She sang of a God in another land. But her song was lost in the call for fish: “Spadefish for frying! Get […]
Read more "A DEPOT OF DAYS"[With apologies to God and Jesus Christ] I swore I wouldn’t swear. Swear to God. I swear I did. But then…something happened. I tripped…or dropped something…or who-knows-what. And expletives blew forth from my mouth. And, like bullets shot from a gun, I couldn’t catch them. Nor bring them back. Remorse set in. […]
Read more "I SOLEMNLY SWEAR"“In the 1970s I bought an antique desk. When I got it home, I found one single piece of paper way back in one of the drawers. I don’t know who wrote it but I have saved it all these years. I think you’ll see why. Enjoy!”
Read more "Rat Durds"Language. What a concept. And more and more the American English language gets truncated into acronyms. Not that we didn’t have plenty before. But texting has taken it to another level. A new kind of Morse code: r u ok bc i nd 2 no. And so forth. BTW. LOL. LMAO. FWB. OMG. Most […]
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