What Crosses My Mind

  • The Sudden Nature of Touch

    I am in my quiet, the fortress of my own   isolation.   I’m doing everything right, six feet apart, wash your hands, clean your countertops, do the laundry, wear gloves at the gas station, (wait I didn’t, a week ago, what if … )   So many, wonders, what if, thank God I have…

  • Waiting for the Zombies

    I’m not one for mass hysteria, won’t find me holding a ‘the world will end tomorrow’ or catch me if you can while I run myself ragged with a self-seeking paranoid delusion.   Walk me through the pain, it is real, it is scary, so surreal feels like an apocalypse not the news, go shopping…

  • An Unconditional Prelude

    We stood and watched, heard about a couple of planes ascending into the atmosphere above and beyond a toxic city.   We wondered aloud, thought oh my, such a tragedy, imagined only a particular moment, far beyond our backyard, we don’t even need a fence, so convenient, so far away.   We began to stare…