Tag Archives: trust

at some moment – February 20

2.20.2018 Mortality is a tricky beast. At some moment I will feel a catch, a stop, an instant, and my eyes will blink or close, my mind stop registering, to not open again.   I may hear briefly the ones … Continue reading

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agingness – August 19

8.19.2017 tiredness behind my eyes agingness as a process fending off the trade winds of time. ———————-

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match girl – December 10

12.10.2016 she bought me a christmas candle to shine in the window and warm my heart   remembering the little boy who saw its orange flame and felt safened by the warmth   like the little match girl who saw … Continue reading

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promised – November 23

11.23.2016 blue denim shirt and jeans, navy guy school janitor thin, curley haired hoped for hero   that I reached out to when the big kids threw my treasured blue plastic automatic pistol up onto the school roof over my … Continue reading

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hands in the dark – October 7

10.7.2016 dark crisp night branches so stark against the sky   we hold hands into the dark stepping ahead with each other   as if we’d always known. ——————-

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songs on the way – August 11

8.11.2016 all we go down to the dust yet even at the grave we make our song Alleluia, Alleluia Alleluia.   a plain plastic box holds her remains but not her soul   we spoke and prayed the words for … Continue reading

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cold weather’s come in – December 11

12.11.2015 cold weather’s come in, stars clearer, a chill off the grass, leaves shoveling toward their winter graves.   it’s going to be all right. (11.6) ———————-

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in the chair – August 18

8.19.2015 the glint of tools sonic buzz of drill dentist presence a trust moment. ———————–

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son at the wheel – July 18

7.13.2015 the car rolls out son at the wheel   we have to trust now   that the lessons taught   over years and days and instants   took. —————-

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speaking truth – July 11

7.11.2015 she lived with pain for years until a real love came.   now gone there is grief at too quick an end   yet the heights spoke truth. —————-

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