Monthly Archives: May 2025

A lesson a young, freshman girl taught me many years ago: She’d written on a writing prompt I’d devised, “SOMETHING I TOOK FOR GRANTED, WASN’T.” Her final sentence in her cute little story was, “So I learned to take nothing … Continue reading →

…you in your new digs, that old 4-story-walk-up in the Village, searching the popcorn ceiling for the 27th time by a neon-light-lit below. Or a passing taxi, brights on, shimmers across the bumps, jags, creases, edges, flat-smooth-spaces above you. Or … Continue reading →

Oh! God in Heaven! Thou hast set my eyes in front of my face so my vision is forward toward the doomed body of my prey! Thank you Father! For Thou hast created me a predator in my genes! A … Continue reading →

I’m feeling congested in my lungs and head, this my second bout of Covid, 4 vaccinations not withstanding. So I figure this is a good moment to leave some suggestions for when I’m dead. (You know, to avoid the inevitable … Continue reading →

Oh! How we clutch the last moment of the next to the last moment! And Oh! The pain of that last of the last grain in the hour glass falling through to fill again for the millionth time, (perhaps) the … Continue reading →

Yes, I guess…. From semin’ry to heresy in 53 years! Perhaps, an unusual evolution, I confess. But I’m not surprised by the time it took. I’d had such a long way to climb, you see…. From such a firm, fundamental … Continue reading →

…that magnetic force slamming souls together, lit by the sudden lightning bolt flashed from a cloudless, midnight sky. It locks us together at its spark. Can never be torn apart without a rending of the heart. There is no diminishment, … Continue reading →

In times when darkness floods my soul and my mind’s a void of doom, it’s not-hard for me to once-again-see the world’s a spinning grave yard. And all the globe’s in gloom. But then, some moment catches me, my wife’s … Continue reading →

In May, one twin had a birthday, (as did his brother, naturally), was wished well. The other, forgotten or not liked, I guess… is left out, (usually) even though their births had been (nearly) simultaneously. Why not wish, both born, … Continue reading →