“You do that with so much concentration,” he said, watching me.
“How am I supposed to do it?”
“Just as comes naturally.”
But if I just did it as comes naturally, I wouldn’t do it at all.
Category: The Writing Chapters
10 Bright Spots in October
Some months are simply brighter than others, but all months have some moments of light in them. Maybe even ten.
Break
Promises break.VT RSDC
Glass breaks.
Flower stalks break when their blooms are too heavy.
The Man with No Face
The first time I saw the man with no face, I was sad. I had run to the mountains because there was no comfort for me in the village, and anyway, I do not make free gifts of my feelings.
The Sleepers
Ours is nothing like decorous voyages of legend, but it’s been a long time since I could be traditional.
The Lost Stories
What do you think about when you have nothing to think about?
A Plastic Piano Sonnet
I press an awkward, double-fingered song
Across my daughter’s toy piano keys.
Free-Falling
We are free-falling Everything is strange and changing But it only frightens me when I take my eyes off you You How are you so small And… Read more “Free-Falling”
Like I was Art
She showed me the photo she’d taken without my knowing it And I looked at it And I looked at it And I said nothing It wasn’t… Read more “Like I was Art”
I Am From…
I’m from 3 books at the library on Wednesday evenings
and talking too fast to be understood
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