Just existing makes dying look easy.But maybe tomorrow. I’ve done enough dying today. (The Gatlin Brothers) I’ve died enough for a lifetime,have hurt, agonized, cried.I’ve murdered my self,on a people-pleasing altar,dived head-first from a clifffor somebody nodded that way. I’ve […]
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The Drum of the Humdrum
Some days we hear only the drum of the humdrum. ~ Karen Casey (Each Day a New Beginning, Aug. 28) So what’s wrong with extremes?In Revelation the church at Laodiceawas chided for being neither hot nor cold.The Big Book talks […]
Continue reading »Agnostic as to Application
And the entire concept is caught up in a chapter called “We Agnostics” which I never read because I’m not an agnostic, and why bother? It might as well have been “We Ethiopians” or some crap like that. Next. Next. […]
Continue reading »Gaelic Gallop
This poem is from Barbara Rollins’ unpublished children’s book To Dingwall, Y’all set in Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands. The horses are named for historic battles in Scotland. Apart.Alone.New pony in the paddock.Bannockburn grazes, gazes,gauges access to the trough.The old gelding, […]
Continue reading »Icy Fire
Fear consumes with icy fire, tendril vapors clutching souls with absolute zero. Glacial fear creeps, a smoldering floe encasing mummified embers glowing dimmer by half-lives.
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