Hours before an autumn sunrise would erase the morning darkness I kept the lights off hoping to learn what remains when I cannot see.
Archive for the ‘Emotions/Inner World’ Category
Seeing in the Dark
Posted in Existential, Renewal/rebirth on October 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
The Skate House
Posted in Falling in Love, Menopause, Reminiscences on October 23, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Each childhood winter, when the field behind the elementary school froze over, I dreaded the opening of the skate house.
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.
In my imagination, there we travel freely
Posted in Dreams, Travel on May 31, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve traced the journey countless times hovering in the liminal where dream borders obsession. I stare at the map caress the tiny-print names of towns with bleached white facades I murmur their names out loud los pueblos blancos mangle the pronunciations. Your sun-baked skin will look even darker against alabaster walls so, too, your dark […]
In the Black of Winter
Posted in Daughters, Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Menopause, Motherhood, Renewal/rebirth, Seasons on December 25, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
I In the black of the morning brake lights and street lights strung together like a garland blurred by the arcs of rainwater dragged back and forth across the windshield.