Monthly Archives: August 2011

Gratitude

Posted on August 31, 2011 by

Thanking God for prayers unanswered should be a regular pilgrimage daily thanks sent heavenward as well for pleadings ignored, deals never made, proposals not acknowledged, pleas not granted, abstract make-a-wishful thinking, and rejection from past potential dates second guessing goes … Continue reading →

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Meditative bombast

Posted on August 31, 2011 by

What I have inflicted on life and its responsorials and reprisals on me have proven that regrets teach – if you do the homework things, events once inexplicable are simply lessons learned in an evolving matriculation; tuition deferred, knowledge incurred, … Continue reading →

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Advancement

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

I eschew sex. Firmly entrenched in middle age I have found the act wanting, boring the physicality dull, unimaginative old hat Sex has lost its interest in me shunning sex, I have discovered making love It is the side effect … Continue reading →

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To the east

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

Fresh sun drips from above low-hanging fruit; a new day awaits harvest from the sagging branch of an ancient black walnut yawning, stretching its limbs crackling, groaning arthritic objection in the breeze sitting in the shelter of dawn, I mimic … Continue reading →

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Targeted

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

I was once a New Year’s resolution a young woman I worked with at a large hotel greeted me passionately, spontaneously, in the grand lobby flinging her arms unannounced around my neck, first kiss of a new year January first. … Continue reading →

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Prey

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

You cannot pursue your epiphany Elmer Fudd-like True, wascally revelation is cunning, coy, indiscriminate – charmingly droll, visceral with twinkling eye To hunt your trophy epiphany, to blindly stalk personal truth is just taking a walk. Truth – truth be … Continue reading →

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The package

Posted on August 28, 2011 by

My mom found the dead chipmunk I had brought home from the lake. It was the end of the summer I was ten; the stripe-tailed rodent had come home at peace in a blue and black JC Penney shoebox I … Continue reading →

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Fact

Posted on August 28, 2011 by

This may make you sing laugh dance or cry but the reality is you will always be dead much longer than you’ll ever be alive.

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Refraction

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

Looking in the mirror I see the faces of a lifetime in midstream sometimes it’s a group photo – staged formality that doesn’t fit there are candid shot mornings and wide-angle shots that distort while others crowd everyone together but … Continue reading →

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Concubine

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

My mistress is verisimilitude a pliant robust and imminently sensual lover. Her knowledge of love,extensive, welll used on the likes of me and I have no complaints of how she treats me nor she of I. We talk we love, … Continue reading →

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