What Crosses My Mind

  • There In The Deep Wood

    There in the deep wood I would watch, the lights on the house in the distance burn, the figures inside I knew like my own, in the damp soil, I would wait in the wood. wondering if they would ever venture out, would they wonder where I might next shout. There in the deep wood…

  • My First Experience With Survival

    It was the summer of 72, just beyond the previous winter, I would stay home, amongst my school friends, chums, the guys I hung with all school year.   Yet I didn’t know them, because the 12 summers before, when I began to remember, around the age of four, I’d spent elsewhere in a different…

  • Beyond Moments

    If in breath, a gasp, an eye glance, worlds interact with indifferent realities, only to provide expression, if only then might we understand. While a horizon away, a family struggles to recognize the wealth of their local dream, while on the other side, a smile. If during some compelling summer we all recognize theirs is…

  • We Are Here, Again

    When I was a child, I remember well, the gathering of family, all indeed similar. In the early morning anticipation, a spell of wonder, love, then all arrived from afar. Conversations were readily heard inside the walls of a gathering of similar soul. The children played a sweet naive pride, allowed adults to know love,…

  • The Sitting Hours

    I always looked forward to the late hours, the night flying by with dialogue and absurdities, everything we could say we believed, and more importantly, we loved, We did delight in knowing we could look in each other’s eyes, well into the twilight, all of us, whoever might have chosen the time, or simply allowed…

  • I Traveled Back in Time

    It felt good to say hello to all of them, The flowers were in crisp spring bloom, The fields swayed with more romance than I recall, I remember the gravel road, The swing rope, and the river pool, just for you, There was a single cow liked to moo.   Last night I visited my…

  • Is This Really Liberal Thinking?

    Last night I had a conversation with two people I have tremendous respect for, the subject quickly turned to politics, and I openly expressed my dislike of our current state of affairs. I spoke of my dismay with our current POTUS’s views and motives, and the dialogue took an icy turn to defense and validation.…

  • Words to Jacob

    I’ve waited for this day, with no eager anticipation, I remember the way, I first discovered you, realized the news would be all about you, I wondered what it would be like to lose someone, to not have any idea, and only be left with pain, the loss that seemed forever in a day, in…

  • Dad

    How close do we come to understanding where it is that we belong, when alone we sudden realize we remember a song, a laugh, a sort of posture always held true. If I could see you in the manner I feel you, would that be all I need. There’s so much more beyond the memory…

  • The Visit

    Though the time was ever so brief, I knew her magic, felt her presence in image she strolled the avenue, only to suggest there is a reality. ~ When wonder shines upon human mortality, we often let confuse the notion of our existence left aside when fate quiet speak. ~ I did in solemn journey…