Monthly Archives: February 2016

278 Valley morning moment

The sun oozed over the mountains ridge, a flash fire in a line, turned mornings haze to briliance a chromatic at a time. Its rays caught crystal ice chips which lay as diamonds sown, converting them to rainbows, washed across … Continue reading

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277 Why that one?

Why has that single oak tree been granted leafy longevity? Why, when all the other trees around have dropped their leaves to cover the ground, has that solitary sentinal maintained its Autumnal glory? I think the reasons are easy to … Continue reading

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276 Night sky

It pleases me to gaze the stars. It keeps life in perspective. The cosmos, so spectacular, it lets me be defective.

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275 My first passport

That I was the only forth grader in my Bronx elementary school to own a show n’tell passport, (where did I think I was going? Brooklyn?) is a tale rooted in my Ukrainian Grandpas bloodshot eyes and vodkaed slur, angry … Continue reading

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274 Destiny is messy

Destiny took a second swing at my right hands half pinky last Sunday. She missed. Just a slice to short. Spent some blood. Left thin knuckle skin hanging a bit. Not as bad as the first time! I was four, … Continue reading

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273 City on the skin

I thought passing time erases memories. Long ago, I cast off concrete recollections of my city childhood, while wandering down soft pine lined paths in the woods around my rural home. But still, suddenly, I feel the pounding on the … Continue reading

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272 A change of mind

Once to die is cast into a leap or a bullet or a needle, I believe most suicides decide they really, really, really want to live one more day. Christmas Day. Happy Birth Day. An ordinary, boring, trivial slice off … Continue reading

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271 Hawks Psalm

I am hawk to my Lord the fowler. He unsheaths my eyes. He maketh me to soar in His skies. My talons are His to command. He bids them be His answer. I scream down like my brother the eagle. … Continue reading

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270 Knowing Hell III

Fire would be a fine relief And God a loving fellow to release the damned from the tick-tock-tick of knowing, knowing, knowing, knowing, knowing, knowing,

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269 Knowing Hell II

or, when youive been fucking around on him, or you’ve been really enjoying fucking around on her, while the worry, fear, thoughts of consequence, lie buried deep, deep… but suddenly, in a quick seconds shock, “Fuck!”, you think, “He knows!” … Continue reading

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