I didn’t tell you that I was scared from the start, That between act one and act two there’s a[…]
Month: April 2020
BEACHTIME
My doting mother calls to me from our beach blanket, “Time to go, make sure and rinse your feet!” […]
Under the Surface and Counting
Instructions: You can dive in and swim breast stroke, backstroke, freestyle or skip right to the end to make your[…]
Unmasking
black ski mask stretched over my wan face a black-and-white warbler weesa weesa weesa weesa weesa weesa weesa Rounding[…]
SOS
Coiled on the floor my Straight-Out Strap® is a green snake that doesn’t bite. I loop its tongue around[…]
JOGGING WITH THE SIRENS
(copyright Roy P. Livingston, 4/15/2020) Dead men tell no tales and pass no virus, And so I hide among the[…]
Moonlit Lake–A Meditation
a lunar disc hangs high in the midnight firmament it bends the sun’s radiant output over the recipient earth bathing[…]
The Spirit
by Barbara Quintiliano April 2020 The Spirit always whispers never shouts and soothes us like a child’s first lisping words[…]
OM
Om I know why the earth must cry… Om. Omnipresent, Ominous, Omnipotent, Omniarch, Omniform Everything but Omissible. I fall to[…]
Roots of Oak
by Ross Smith I saw the roots In passing. As if gripping the earth for strength, sustenance. That is, after[…]