Shhh …

We can only hold what we can bear. Silence brooks wisdom, and if one attends to the whooshing din of atoms, secrets of the universe unfurl themselves, invisible flags scaling stanchions of awareness, defining human drama and its opposite, quietude, in the...

Knowing God

She must have felt wicked at an early age; sin seeding flesh and flesh breeding sin for as long as she could remember; Was it the Church or the palpable shudder of being assaulted at any moment which engendered fear of Father God betrayal around every curve of cursed...

Provisional Peace

Her tears roll down my cheeks while I, imperfect proxy, pore over them one by one, not having done so since transferring onto flash drives the sheer volume of archives once overloading a laptop, then hidden inconspicuously in a small wooden box near to and yet far...

Earth Walk

I have observed too many sunsets to search for gods beyond earth’s endless horizons, tipped backward out of rafts into one too many roiling icy streams, floated face-down in countless salt-laden seas, wondering what would appear in that vast expanse of sapphire,...