Head Cold. An Unwanted Fairing
Head cold. An Unwanted Fairing Few, but succinct words needed: This one isn’t at all welcome. Re-gifting is also inappropriate. Go Away, Go Away, Go Away.
This Thursday’s Thanks: A Short List
This Thursday’s Thanks: A Short List This Thursday, I’m thankful that the repaired roof of my apartment building no longer leaks. Delivery drivers braved yesterday’s weather to bring me lightbulbs for my desk lamp, and I’m thankful. I’m thankful for writing friends to celebrate their progress and new contracts with. I’m thankful for God’s providential
The View Holds Hope An Update
The View Holds Hope an Update I was expecting a wait of several more months, but a glance at the computer screen showed me an email. Two of the five poems describing my opinion of winter that I submitted to the Harness Anthology Solstice have been accepted. When the anthology is in print, (some time
Thank you, Lisa Hunderman Photography!
Thank you, Lisa Hunderman Photography! For the first time since kindergarten, a photograph of me pleases me. Tuesday tells the truth.
Monday Marvels Moths: Such Variety
Monday Marvels Moths: Such Variety Literary character Elnora Comstock might have gone out with a lantern to attract the Yellow Emperors she collected, but this looks more to me like it might be one of the many varieties of a sphinx moth. It sat patiently on my screen door while I came out to capture
Memorabilia: a Souvenir a Fairing
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Thursday Thanking
Items for Thursday Thanking The clouds of earlier have thinned and split, so from this distance the lawn is almost an Irish green. I can appreciate the chicory and Queen Anne’s Lace growing along the side of the road. Ever thank God for having an appetite? Lunch certainly tasted good. Library Books Good news
The View Holds Hope a Wednesday Window
The View Holds Hope a Wednesday Window In the early hours today, I submitted poems to a winter-themed anthology which I expect to be available in January. I’ll give updates. Update: It takes very little to shift things so that the view holds hope. Two poems were accepted and published, and there’s a link to
Tuesday Tells notable quotes
Tuesday Tells Notable Quotes “I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistake I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there. Many people resented my impatience and my honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.” —Jackie Robinson
My Chance To See Wonders
My Chance To See Wonders Once, while I lived in a mobile home park, I left a plastic measuring cup on the porch. I’d taken it out to water a pot of flowers. Some days after that, it rained overnight. When I went out onto the porch to empty the collected water, I saw something