Monthly Archives: October 2016

One Autumn Day in Spring

T’was the tears from morning dew shed for Autumn’s fate, gathered on a weary leaf loosened under season’s weight. And it is here my story originates. That leaf, whose trip began at the tip of a dry and barren branch … Continue reading

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Candle Shadows

Hauntings in the tiny hours, When you wake in the morning darkness Surrounded by the sparks and sputters of the world, But yet quite alone in its starkness. Ghosts of things you wished you had said To visages and voices … Continue reading

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Wistful Astronomer

Wistful Astronomer Still the wistful schoolboy aspiring to become her astronomer. Through the long scope of imagining eyes, I thought to kiss her lips, perhaps to strike a spire of light upon her celestial diffidence. With my transit and theodolite, … Continue reading

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The Bell Tower of Friendship

It is when your attention is elsewhere, that you are beckoned back to your roots. You are never apart from this love. Your heart is not inside of you. It is elsewhere, and you are within it. So, where is … Continue reading

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Lion and Rabbit

I coo with subtle caress imbued in our words Aloft, then settling in the currents of my heart Like the gentle lion soothing his burnt paw kneading in the cool softness of a rabbit’s fur; His pain pressed tenderly against … Continue reading

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Having Tea in the Fall

Hearing is different when coolness fills the transporting canals of the ears. I rolled the rubbish bin to the curb, its wheels sounding different before the impending Autumn swallows us up. No longer are we melting to the ground. I … Continue reading

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Without Debts and Doubts

Day dawns without debts, without doubts, and later the day changes, the wheel turns, the fire is transfigured. Nothing is left of what dawned, the earth consumed itself grape by grape, the heart was left without blood, spring was left … Continue reading

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