Fog obscures, thick drab shawl over the shoulders of the pines, blurs the silhouettes, redacts the hills
Archive for the ‘Emotions/Inner World’ Category
Absence has its own feel
Posted in Loneliness, Longing, Solitude on October 5, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
The House on Fairy Chasm Road
Posted in Childhood, Home, Memory on June 12, 2023 | 1 Comment »
Cough that caves my chest, rounds my shoulders, my attention has been inward for days,
Buber on the vine
Posted in Existential, Ladybugs, Love, Uncategorized on June 8, 2023 | 1 Comment »
Life richer the smaller I live it, the less effort to dominate, win, understand. Better to be the size of orange ladybugs consummating, the bottom one still, the top one shimmying, vibrating, wriggling before releasing on that vine, tiny white flowers blooming, unphased I did not know their name. Smaller than the me and you, […]
Sunflower Marisol Sunflower
Posted in Acceptance, Andalucía, Identity, Isolation/Belonging, Spain, Sunflowers on May 17, 2023 | 1 Comment »
– For Joe José Raúl V I rechristened myself. A name I failed to use, known only by one man: tall with a large unbroken heart, deep sonorous voice, a new third passport, a can’t-find-his-home wanderer, he comes and goes, visits familia, returns to his rechristened country, explores. He uses all his names. He uses […]
Eyes of Death in the Callejón Below
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Guanajuato on April 11, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
I spent my days waiting for the whinny of the tethered horse, the monarch butterfly’s black and yellow stripes resting atop purple Jacaranda petals, the ephemeral hummingbird in the almost bare late-season Hibiscus.