Court is in Session
Downy heads, forest of the venerable, sit in judgement of our age. Shaking quaking locks, they shudder at the cruelty of those designed for love. Juried leaves flutter anxiously in gossip - “Did you...
View ArticleThe Breath of Spring
If home is where heart-aches hang their hats, what shovel can make the mat welcome? Only Chinook winds of forgiveness, mercy, repentance, wafting on Spirit wings, can melt Denial and soften...
View ArticleHandle
I just can’t get a handle on this - every time I think I’ve learned my lesson, I lose my grip, and good intentions get buried beneath this chip on my shoulder. Is there a How-To Manual for letting go?...
View ArticleBurned Bridges
She smiles – but, life having burned the bridge of her nose, it no longer has a means to travel from her lips to her eyes. “I hate him,” she says, in the same tone she used to order her decaf latte,...
View ArticleUnbidden Fog
Tears spring up, unbidden fog to paint puddles into the equation. She dashes them away, angry that they would fall into her pea soup.Filed under: A Wounded Heart, Anger, Characterizations, Fear,...
View ArticleThe Road Not Taken
I wish this was water under the bridge - instead, your choices are a constant drip, a flood of tears, a deluge forcing me to back-track, take a detour, set up pylons where a simple drain should...
View ArticleThe Bold and the Beautiful
I view you with scorn. Pitiful, I label. Naive beyond belief. Do you not feel it in your bones, this Frost creeping, cadaverous mongrel, seeking your flesh? No one who knows what Saskatchewan winter...
View ArticleWinter Waiting
Small felt smaller still after being buried alive, wrapped Egyptian style in layers bred of cold desperation. * Much energy was wasted fuming, whining, recounting tales of those whose days were filled...
View ArticleUnderneath
Excruciating, this exfoliation, this blistering in the heat of battle. Defenceless, skin peels, flayed offal, diseased dandruff powdering slumped shoulders. Let it go. Let it fall kissed by gravity,...
View ArticleDeforestation
Can’t see the forest for the family trees, these black and blue recessive genes; if I fall in the shadows, will anyone hear?Filed under: A Wounded Heart, Anger, Endurance, Fragility, Freedom,...
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