The light at the end of the tunnel may be salvation or an oncoming train but at least it’s not dark any more. Not all change is welcome Not all change is kind Not all change is but at least it’s something different. I don’t believe that one person’s hell is any better or worse […]
Category: poetry
NaPoWriMo Twenty-sixth Post
Rain last month last week yesterday and last night. Rain as I drove onto the road. Rain as I passed the town and turned onto the lane and into the driveway to work. Rain in the afternoon, under, behind, and after the rainbow as I scurried from the shelter of the overhang to my car […]
NaPoWriMo Twenty-fifth Post
25 cents in a quarter dollar 25 is a quarter of 100 pennies 25 a half of a half-dollar 25 pennies but somehow 100 divided in 4 parts is mysterious and wonderfully strange — and 100 divided in 25? Practically impossible. More NaPoWriMo
NaPoWriMo Twenty-fourth Post
Whether we walk through sun or shadow we walk with those who preceded and follow we join our fellows in an unending unfading unwavering statement: We Are. more NaPoWriMo
NaPoWriMo Twenty-third Post
of what use the attempts to dust the shelves water the plants straighten the pictures now hanging lopsided tidying up of what use taking the time to explain (once again) how to read how to add and subtract learning of what use making the bed combing the hair setting the table simple routines of what […]
NaPoWriMo Twenty-second Post
infants learn through seemingly random disconnected acts and experiences over time a life becomes more coherent to the actors more than the observers growth happens at odd moments and in unplanned leaps within a framework the mind wakes as light shines through breaking glass ceilings with a glance our futures are not yet set among […]
NaPoWriMo Twenty-first Post
Do Your Best on every test whether written or observed the mantra is for pupils who live in uncertain times PROOF! politicians cry but do not comply with their own demands RIGOR! they scream in ways more extreme as they issue commands JUDGE! and they make excuses for eating their cake while the children cry […]
NaPoWriMo Twentieth Post
What is anger? great sorrow anxiety rising up from misfortune we simply add our own terror to the malaise of the masses More NaPoWriMo
NaPoWriMo Nineteenth Post
A migraine crept into my head In the nighttime while I slept I woke too soon then slept too late too late I woke and found the cause the weather changed twixt night and day the pressure changed the skies were dark the rain held off — but clouds hung low and all the day […]
NaPoWriMo Eighteenth Post
On Tuesday the rain the smoke drifting from the chimneys and the trucks the damp seeping from the mosses and the ferns the wet weeping from the cedars and the firs the flowers growing from the lawns and the fields More NaPoWriMo