Road To Mare Tranquillitatis
An invisible highway rushes on, and today your earthly remains will join the traffic. I remain land bound, too weak to follow and choking on the tears of shame. I will miss you. When you left for good, it was to knowledge that I turned for comfort, as I often do. As if the tomes and the maps could bring you back, or make me understand why you had to leave. This time it was an effort doomed to failure, unless you count the sheer accumulation of data as success. Pardon my bitter laughter, but as much as I like a good, solid fact this time data may as well be vapor for as long as it lasted and as hard as it was

No Wonder There Is An Epidemic Of Brushfires and Children Smoking...
 I was going to light some candles, but couldn't find a responsible adult.  

Lions Through The Crest
We were lions once, long ago and far away. That summer the golden-haired boys we were ran along a beach of white sugar tinged with caramel. My Big Brother striding the sand and talking to the girls as if he owned the ocean. My timid self hovered at the edges of the hormone clouds and thought my little island a grand place. Grand, if it bothered one very little to be alone and feel apart from everyone, all the while wishing that somehow the courage could be found to kick open the candy store door and grab some sweetness. I was much too polite to make a scene. Big Bro a

Yellow Sky Blues and the Panic
Man looks up on a yellow sky and the rain turns to rust in his eye Rumours of his health are lies Old England is dying It wasn’t too different than any other Monday, but these days I can’t take that for granted… The sunrise was grey through the blinds, weak and oyster. Sleep the night before was just this side of being okay, which for me is saying a lot. Sleep. An exotic locale that looks good in the brochures, but getting the money to travel is a differe

I Don't To Brag, But...
...I've been awardified! The Queen of Spice, Angie at GUMBO WRITER, so very kindly and graciously bestowed upon me the cheeky award you see above. I am humbled and honored to be in such good company. Wonderful, marvelous and just what I needed