We climbed narrow cobblestone spirals the fortress perched where hilltop meets sky overlooking the Guadalete River.
Archive for the ‘Love’ Category
Releasing the Claim
Posted in Love, Owls, Raptors, Spain, Travel on March 24, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Encaustic
Posted in Art, Love on February 10, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
[after viewing encaustic paintings of Stephanie Hargrave, Shift Gallery, Seattle, 2/10/2018] Black graphite dust skitters across the small beige panel molten wax layers built up in relief.
Recurrence
Posted in Dreams, Love, Poetry on January 22, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
My mother dreams of walking the mausoleum’s corridor searching for her name among the eye-level inscription plates petite crypts holding entombed breasts. It’s been more than 30 years since the era of battling early stage breast cancer with radical mastectomy – without reconstruction. Still she dreams of being reunited, made whole.
Two Years Ago
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Love, Prayer, Relationships on January 10, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Two years ago today, you died, Dad. You missed the Alaska cruise, the week in London, two weddings, one at the exquisitely chic Sonoma winery, where you would have made that face you made whenever you succumbed to pressure to taste a great red wine, which never delivered anything close to the two-packet Sweet-n-Low […]
Water Falls (Waterfalls)
Posted in Beauty, Love, Waterfall on July 25, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
I look up without seeing the source. Cold spray moistens cheeks already moistened by tears. Beauty crashes down with a rumble and roar into pools of sorrow. My body reverberates as love crashes down, the confluence of creek and river, you and me, forged in the roar of the falls.