Monthly Archives: June 2024

Summer is open windowsand a finicky breezestirring the sheer curtainsand shadows of the treesreaching past the screenwaltzing on the walls.An owl whooos nearbyanother whooos backfrom deep in the woodsand I’m almost asleepwhen the muffled rumbleand far off whistle palesthe air … Continue reading →

dVerse Haibun Monday 6-17-24: Solstice Posted by Frank J. Tassone  The longest day of the year, June twentieth, and we celebrate the extended light of the day. Darkness is pushed further into the evening, more time to play, socialize, and rest on the … Continue reading →

dVerse/June 11 and mindlovemisery/June 14are both talking Liminal That outermost edge of townacross the once busy trackswhere commerce and entertainmentkept pace with down-townall is rundown now. Rats in the basementfield mice nested in closetsbats in the attic raftersan occasional possum, … Continue reading →

inkinthirds – 100 Word Wednesday “Did you see the horses this morning?” she asked pointing to the yard. “So pretty. They aren’t there now, but I saw them.” she continued. I nod and smile back. I saw them earlier, three … Continue reading →

I can’t stop thinking in quotes.These conferences, meetings,think tanks are becoming stories,fiction, fantasy, too familiar. She walks into the room, pullsout a chair and I think, “Of all thegin joints, in all the towns, in allthe world, she walks into mine…” … Continue reading →

I put my hand on the arm of the woman,my grey hand upon her grey sleeve,and she leads me through the echoing emptiness.— excerpt from “The Blindman’s Song,” by Rainer Maria Rilke An accident at birth and she is blindonly … Continue reading →

The air is heavy, stuffy, scented with hyacinths from the garden and a lavender air freshener. Pastel walls, vintage pieces of furniture, photographs of children, though they are all grown now, and a Maltese asleep on the hassock, paints a … Continue reading →

Roads go ever ever on,Under cloud and under star.Yet feet that wandering have goneTurn at last to home afar. Roads Go Ever On – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Somewhere over the rainbowwhere yellow brick roads roamthrough wild … Continue reading →

Looking down on her face, I wince at her ethereal beauty. Her alabaster complexion, her rose petal pink lips, that I bend to kiss, as well as the ivory lids of each eye, causes an ache in my heart. My … Continue reading →

I got the notice, was it on Facebook?Suddenly, I can’t remember.It said that you had died. I never met you butI know you were married, happily,lived somewhere in England,former police officeror something to do with law enforcement. I enjoyed your … Continue reading →