When the breeze catches just right I can smell the gardenias in the neighbor’s yard. A pretty fiction, with ivory blossoms in their full unfurl that smell like grace and bruise like egos. I suspect it would supersede accepted customs to clip a couple for my own. Or pitch a chair in closer proximity for… Continue reading Redolent Of
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To the Light
When I was 16-turning-17 I flew from Miami to London on July 4 for a summer study program. All along the east coast, before banking out over and through the dark of the North Atlantic, save for the stars, fireworks went off below. At 30,000 and then some feet up, all you heard was the… Continue reading To the Light
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
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