Written to my sister, May 1, 1952 – June 11, 2016.
I went on a short excursion with my
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For Anne
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Year: 2017
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Distances
It will be about 8:30am in your world, which would seem so distant, and slightly unreal, were it not for the
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Perspective
I finally arrived safely late afternoon yesterday after a memorable week. Stepping back and having a look toward me as though
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Tangent 4
Speculation
So far as we have been able thus far to determine, our species’ transcendence over our one-time close-quartered Neanderthalic cousins occurred with
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Brooding
Brooding
Does this word – brooding – engender in you a sense of the melancholy or the morose? Suddenly, do you discover your
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Grandiose
There is a great deal of pleasure to be had in vaunted notions of oneself, if only momentarily, and as a regular feature
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Prometheus
You have a favorite Greek proto-god, Prometheus, one of the progenitors of other greater or lesser gods to follow. (Take your pick, as
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Dissonant Genesis
The irreducible maculate upon the lofty, laudable establishment of our particular and experimental form of governmental democracy was the decision to lay aside
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Crowded
She stands the protests
of the crowded air,
a cloud of bad
and good intent,
and votes fair truth
in fevered space
before the chance is rent.
She probes and
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of the crowded air,
a cloud of bad
and good intent,
and votes fair truth
in fevered space
before the chance is rent.
She probes and
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Changes
It is difficult to say goodbye, but sometimes it is more easily managed than saying hello. Our lives are in constant
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