Monthly Archives: February 2023

Be not so sure of surety, of a reminder for tomorrow on your desk. For always, later or sooner, is the consecutive skipped arrhythmia of a heart failing since birth, is that brief, inattentive crossing of that street where, unconcerned, … Continue reading →

All my birds stopped. Stopped everything. Spearing suet from between the green grills. Snatching sunflower seeds from Droll Yankee feeders. Flitting from tree trunk to branch. Singing. Stopped. Everything. Nor could my bravest Chickadees, whispering chirps and secrets from deeper … Continue reading →

In the Great American Photo Album, Southport’s Bo Jangles is a little snap-shot. A picture of the crew will do. Mai Wong bakes the biscuits. She feels fortune-favored to have the job since she is (secretly) just 15, but she … Continue reading →

The line crew and the regulars at Micky-D’s on an Friday morning, early, weave a friendly, familiar tapestry in my memory. Two state troopers and two EMT’s getting off their night shift. Contractors and a band of Mexican construction workers … Continue reading →

The Cape Fear River on her out going tide poured back into the Mid-Atlantic, the Bay a solid, gray-slate stone, dark churning water and a clouded sky soldered together along the horizon. Then a split ripped the darkness wide open … Continue reading →

My wife and I bumped into God today, at COSCO. Not a shoulder-to-shoulder-big-bang collision! We could never have survived the crash. It was more a conceptual collusion. Back in the rear section, between aisles 23 through 33 where the veggies, … Continue reading →