Veteran’s Day
As you can see by this magnificent image, my cousin David Eckels TREAT YOURSELF is a skilled photographer. This year we’ve engaged in a serendipitous dialogue between his images and my poems. ...
Mute We Waited
When The Great Archer stood upon the uppermost crag of scrambled complexity He stood not alone. Nearest the elbow holding the bow — the Begotten One to send ahead. On opposite flank — ...
C.S. Lewis Addresses
We desire what we have never known. “In speaking of this desire for our own far-off country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I am almost committing an indecency. ...
Ours Is A Story of Repair
Ours is a Story of Repair Ours is a story of repair. We came to it broken. Torn images, missing scenes. You remember a red butterfly. I remember yellow angel trumpets. We wanted honey. Bees were ...
Who God Designed Me to Be
Song of a Bruised Camellia Whether I’d like to admit it or not, I’m not the flower everyone thinks I am. I am not the flower. I am not her. Not that one. I am another one. Whether I’d like to admit ...
Grandmother Thanks Little
The Woodcutter’s Daughter Long before the Grimm’s brothers shut down their law firm, and owned up to their art, I shuddered swiftly from shadow to shadow, the big bad pursuing. To where? For ...
Intents and Purposes
This is an excerpt from my book, Intents & Purposes. Learn more about Intents & Purposes here. Yellow. The suitcase is as close to yellow as any other color. For a surprise, the sisters wrap ...
Intents and Purposes
She knows nothing. Less than nothing. This is what she knows. She has agreed to what she does not know, to what she believes will be easy. Something black. Something white. Knowing she knows nothing ...
Words to Ponder
In every man’s heart, there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty – Christopher Morley ...
Stop Thief
She wasn’t always so fluid. She thinks. This is a thought, Not a sentence. By desperate she means in danger of leaking out of herself. People do all the time, she thinks, remembering all the. ...
Refusing Despair
Refusing Despair Refusing Despair, we surrendered to Hope. We remembered and marked the disasters along the way. Returning to the forgotten, we nearly drowned for fear of the depths. But Faith ...