1. Recently seen: commend more and condemn less. 2. Poetry is a condensed form of expression that doesn’t follow the rules of prose like a dream isn’t limited by reality. 3. The couch is a lifeboat / I manage to inflate / The poem is a fish story / that doesn’t hold water / It’s […]
If ice is a fool’s diamond, then I am a fool because I’m attracted to all that glitters. Ice crystallizes the power of water, which is more valuable than any cut gem. It can give or take life. My footsteps loudly crunch on the top layer of ice and echo through the countryside. A walk […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on January 10, 2019 A first kiss, how we met, a new career after a parent’s death were some of the “beginnings” stories told at the January Blue Ridge Story Space (BRSS). It was the year anniversary of the monthly storytelling event and one of the best […]
_________Our World Tuesday
Same lunch Same nap Same birds at the feeder Squeaky rocker in a drowsy noon Poured tea might as well be whiskey Head drops with the weight of thought I wake with a gasp and a stiff neck The couch is a lifeboat I manage to inflate The poem is a fish story that doesn’t […]
1. The pouring of tea is like the conversation that comes after the contemplation of the steeping. The darker the steeping, the deeper is the taste of meaning. 2. “This portal! How remarkable that it’s there in your kitchen. The wonder of gazing down that rabbit hole, that well of wisdom—into fantastic pictures, to stories […]
_____Wordless Wednesday / Skywatch Friday
Who knew, it was made with glue? There are so many kinds of slime — also known as goo, goop, flarp and flubber – both the bought and the homemade kind. In December I went to a slime making workshop at the Jessie Peterman Library, which is where these pictures (some of which first appeared […]
It holds a bucket list of poems that I’ve mostly given up on and handwritten directions to places I can’t pronounce Its empty pages are haunted with a family of unborn chances for people I’ve never met who only want to look at the pictures I don’t drive far from home and can barely read […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on January 3, 2019 The Floyd County Store hosted The Great Gingerbread House Contest on December 22. The store’s marketing manager, Gina Dilg, is pictured here holding the Gingerbread Contractor of the Year crown as the evening’s dance band warms up in the background. A child studies […]
1. Some people are on their honeymoon in sunny Australia while others are preparing to fly to Florida to play golf. 2. But all you need for my kind of vacation is a little sun. Close your eyes and you’re there: anywhere. 3. No, that’s not a ski slope. 4. We didn’t see the ball […]
AKA: One too many? / Wordless Wednesday
