Category: Nature

  • The pool must be pretty on the surface. We would never come near it if we knew what it held. What hides beneath tranquility are all the dark thoughts and nightmares that seek to keep us firmly in our place. Frozen in fear. Shrunken with inactivity. A soothing reflection deceives. It is only fiction if…

  • There was the acid reflux and allergic reaction to casein. A cartilage-deficient left knee and pinched muscles in the small of her back. Karen Rainey was a wreck. But a sacrifice had to be made. Bills don't much care if one's body has turned against her. Karen had no choice but to climb aboard the…

  • So here's the latest: Sunny has a hard time getting a good night's sleep. The "recurrings" are a regular thing now and Sunny says she has two scenarios: the dream where she's in the forest and descends a long spiral staircase, and the one in the rundown mansion with the strangers who wander from room…

  • grey puts on purple todayit doesn't want to play the mediatormidweek is more comfortable in black and whitetry as i might to look wednesday in the eyewithout the distraction of its unavoidable bulge

  • it's all about the work: the word, the note, the emotion, the shade. capture and catalogue. catch and release. the river carries away memory while the sea retains every pain and mistake. it's hard to recall that which never happened at all but an impression was made just the same. such is the beauty of…

  • Mastering the art of concealment. Track the quarry and give chase. Stealth brings out the eyes. Add a dab of blood behind each ear. Pull the lips back to drive the point home. We've never lost our taste for the easy kill. I am who I am despite the disguise.

  •   Imperfect treasure Rust hides the value of toil Coil this withered skin

  • Sit still. Life goes underground when the skies are unfriendly.Hope gains strength in silence.Patience is a bud placed on a warped and weathered sill.The sun passes over brittle fields with little promise of warmth and just enough light to make despair think its job is done. Take a deep breath.

  •   hemmed in on both sides shallow habits break my will channel compassion

  •     action trapped in doubt overthink each easy piece skate around the truth