Fruit Notes She bathes in Bubblelicious Fuzzy Peach towels off then spritzes Kiwi Melon Splash. She chooses Mango Sunscreen for the beach or Lemon Lime or Berries from her stash. She balms her lips with Sour Cherry Twist her body polish sparkles Groovy Grape. She freshens up with Pomegranate Mist (such well-fed skin will never… Continue reading Fruit Notes
April Special (A choose your own ending poem) Maitre d’ offers a menu of rain for starters a sprinkle, a spitting, a mist my glasses are blurry, my hair is damp-kissed but hors d’oeuvre about which I will not complain. Wind and cloud waitresses proffer the main with all-day-long drizzle, deluge and flood the road… Continue reading April Special
Family Table A handsome board in 1944 in clan of furniture they called a suite our walnut table opened up to more than eight, the matching chairs had padded seats. In youthful days it served mountains of food chicken, potatoes, bread, puddings with cream then listened to us add and sound out words cut crafts,… Continue reading Family table
Corporate Cuts Five years ago the cut was surgical. Just minutes with the boss and it was done a severance of sinew, muscle, bone shock was the anesthetic, then slow heal. This time they used an endless tourniquet new paradigms, objectives, letters, dates twisting his job description with new weights revealing their design by slow… Continue reading Corporate Cuts
Family Reunion And he turned himself away from them and wept. - Genesis 42:24 Those rugged Semite robes, that tangled hair, how this one walks, another’s face, those eyes... They near, the smell of Canaan fills the air. Ten sheaves bow down – a wondrous, cruel surprise. “Your servants, twelve, are brothers, sons of one,… Continue reading Family Reunion
Crowds come, he speaks, we cast out spirits, heal. As a career move I could have done worse. Mobility is upward here, I feel for I'm the one he chose to keep the purse. But he attracts the common, sick and poor, his teachings contradict, they don't make sense: First shall be last? Great riches… Continue reading Career Move
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