jumpingfish

Pine hammocks on the horizon. Clouds streaming by. Brown winter grasses blowing in the ocean breeze. An intercom voice counts down. A rocket engine fires. Latches let go. Morpheus rises on a spike of blue flame into the air. It hovers, translates and creeps back down. Orange flame blows sand and smoke and dust and rocks into the […]

The sun is out. The sky is blue. The dogs are blissfully tired from their long walk across the field and along the margin of the woods and thru the forest. You are there. I am here with too much time on my hands, I suppose you’ll think. So I send this to you. A […]

1. At the Start It was dark. It was cold. The runners waited until the very last minute to put their warm gear in their bags, but even then they had on ratty, cotton, long-sleeved shirts and caps that they fully intended to jettison after the race was underway. That’s always seemed so wasteful to […]

On the way to work in the morning. There was the moon sinking in the west as the sun rose in the east. On the way home that night. There was the moon rising in the east just after the sun went down. Long day.

I want to talk about the moon. It must be nearly full, for as the dogs and I walked around the track tonite, we cast dark moon shadows onto the ground. But that’s not the moon I want to talk about. I want to talk about a thin, crescent moon that sat in the west […]