I dreamed last night. The sky glowed maroon. Clouds flowed like Van Gogh watches in mist. I balanced my toes on the tassels of our flying carpet and muttered into my father’s ear, listing reasons to dock on land. But the mountains swung jagged beneath us, crusted with pre-dawn celestial glow, and the air…
Tag: darkness
That Lady – she makes me cry.
In China town, shops are filled with cheap odds and ends. Lucky cats wave you in and out of store after store as you buy more and more. Today I was hit with a sadness. That Lady – the one in the shop – the one with the frizzy, thinning hair and the pasty face….
The Fate of an Artist {a fairytale}
{This is one of my favorites out of all I’ve ever written. Please enjoy.} The concert hall is dark. And empty. This year, not one soul will watch his performance. One footstep sounding, firm and determined, echoes up and down and through the darkness. Then another, slow and deliberate, as he stalks to the center…
{The Sunlight Disappeared}
Fading, fading, blue jeans bleached. Hair, one day, not brown but grey. Why continue? Everything just fades away. . . I saw the sun shine brightly overhead. I heard the sparrows chatter jabber over crumbs. A cloud passed over the sun – And life just sauntered on. When the sunset set the sky…