Author: admin

be gentle with yourself as he was gentle with you all of his days

living in the now even in the goodbye connected to the very last breath

The almost-man in a rented suit pretends to look casual, as if, like Fred Astaire, he was born to tux and tails. His unruly thatch of hair is newly subdued by the family barber. His smile flickers between shy and boy-devilish....

Unsettled, we described him, cousin Sam fresh out of Vietnam. He shucked his uniform, disparaged military obligation, swore he’d never again be obliged. Soon took off for parts unknown, no cards, no calls. He passed through...

A string of rain storms sprawls like an infection over the green skin of Florida. The oozing white eye drains over Putnam County, its feverish border circling the St. Johns River. Wind shear hurls a skein of arrows indicating...

For more than blossoms have I need. the stirring earth, the burning seed that lifts into the warming air perfumed like incense rising there where laurels take a mountainside the thunder of the winds swept blooming fulfilling the...