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Tell
Only one more year is left. One more year. I have your lifetime of memories stored away, and you have your own memories of the past years until now, and we share many of those same memories. If I could go back through the years, I know what I would do and say...
Fried Green Tomato Heart
Fried Green Tomato Heart The outside, crispy, fried, like onion ring The inside, tangy meat and juicy sweet Dinner fare of southern peasant and king All, at dignity’s table, dine and meet Cloth-covered picnic tables, drink wine, sing Raise arms, clink cups, spin...
Unclaimed
Unclaimed Dreadful when green waters Expel their contents, spewing Onto fields nearby, Curled in fetal position-- Failure Forsaken in passionate youth, Or anytime-- Untidy. The sun shone It always does-- Illuminating innocent faces Waiting in some corner At the...
Filled With What?
I read about it in the news. You have, too. The places where chaos and confusion and persecution have erupted. I am thinking of our Christian brothers and sisters in Iraq, and how an extremist faction has taken over and is filling the people with fear. One day,...
Casting
Casting Watching waves crest and sink Surfing down summer’s summit They cast time-worn nets Catch fleeting dreams before they slip and enfold into deep waters-- Before they meld into sandy shore Pulling out enough for the current day They sift through the...
Begin
It's the place we come back to: the place we started. It's the first step to any dream: taking a step, however small it might be. Famous people often refer back to this place, where they first started; where they began, whether a politician or movie star or any of us,...
About Laundry
(1) Laundered Spin away stains Wash away witnesses Mud and spilled coffee-- Leftovers from heavy duty, Normal, or delicate days. Forget what you saw, What I tried to hide. Toss into heated tempest. Fold. Prepare to get dirty again. Repeat the cycle. Repeat. A covering...
The Matter of a Millimeter
I sat beside him with a ruler and showed him how small a millimeter is, and how many of them it takes to make a centimeter. I thought about what it means for me, and for him, to know this, and why? I called out spelling words for a test, reviewed vocabulary...
The Practice of Love
"God’s love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks. How exquisite your love, O God! How eager we are to run under your wings, To eat our...
The Quiet
Sometimes a person just needs to be bathed in it... drenched and soaked. I close my eyes and hear it all around me... the incessant murmur of the sounds that make up my days. And while those can get truly get loud, it's the ones in my head that are truly the loudest....
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