Context: For most of this year, I haven't been writing creatively. It was a massively busy work year, sprinkled with some personal dysfunction, loss, and emotional and logistical disarray. I've been feeling the pull to write again, but lacking any creative spark or flow to my thoughts. Tonight I was bound and determined to set… Continue reading Verses, Curses
Tag: loss
Then Let it Rain
Here, it rains even under full sun, each weighted drop shone through, cleansing. I’m sure of less than all I thought I knew before— how obvious now. I am heavier since the lightening, somehow gaining with the loss. Still I idle in the fractured glow, needing yet to be reassured. Later, the grass will appear… Continue reading Then Let it Rain
Such Is
Take, eat, so it goes. Still, I can only digest so much of this heaping helping of benediction. I will mix metaphors with mercies, myriad, maligned. Mostly what I recall from prayerful bow is tired knees. Now I can’t say if answers sought were simply unfound or unfounded. I would raise my voice, still, for… Continue reading Such Is
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