Yearly Archives: 2014
New Moon + 1
Thursday was the new moon. The sky was clear. The sun had just set. But there was no sign of it. Try as I might from behind the wheel on the commute home, peer as much as I might try at the darkening sky in the west, I could see nothing, not even a thin, […]
Bravo
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 […]
I’ll Share My Brush With You
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 […]
3M Half-Marathon
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 […]
Morning and Night
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.