What Crosses My Mind

  • Begin Now

    When they said, ‘wait for tomorrow’ they might have followed with a rhapsody of torment in eruptive skies. For we do seek explosive reckoning, when a sudden cathartic, a ‘now’ moment as mother always cried in the midst of change, what opportunity lies in the future is exactly our temptation. If only I might be…

  • Every Night

    the satchel lays under the bed, packed for size, just the essentials that later define a life, right now, well, just a bag with some assorted goods. Put me on a freight heading west and it suddenly, like the click-clack of the tracks, becomes everything we own in the world, leaving the rest behind. ~…

  • Slipping Further

    We know the mist when in a morning of indecision, glance further, hope for a sign, yet we walk in wander seeing the same. On an occasional daybreak, we recognize fog, a surreal enveloping storm of breeze, teasing the ground, to allow our mind to imagine, a surreal perhaps spiritual mystique. Speak of its beauty,…

  • Tiresome Notions

    When the news is simple with the same complaints, only to fill the byte, when I see the same woman walking through the day, with new bruises when I realize what little I have managed thus far with personal endeavors when sitting down to recognize my practiced routines will be the same tomorrow when society…

  • Political Society

    The neighbor lady down the street from her speaks well around election time for sure. She won’t question her on another day but the news rather steered her views that way. Seems the economics of the times call for unity, with time, before we all fall inside the cavern; unraveling hope, the scourge limit our President’s true…

  • Slated Departures

    “Why it’s easy”, she told him as he looked to her for guidance. Simply make it a priority and it will happen. In his mind, all he could think about was this didn’t happen in his world. It was far too expensive for one, not to mention that so many other things mattered. She had…