Daily Archives: April 23, 2012

Illustration by Garth Williams, from Charlotte’s Web . . Oh, Charlotte. Where are you when we need you to weave happy words over our be -fuddled heads, whisper         (salutations) sacred truths into our soiled pink ears when all else in … Continue reading →

  He waits in water    while she wields her white steed    through these whispering trees,          breath held, waiting          to exhale            awaken            sigh               into scarlet                          liquid kiss.

       Seven kids,           10 and           under.                 Headphones.                Carpool Tunnel Syndrome.

Our words  t r e m b l e, lurch; prickly with hope and time and breath and failure. We                                     sift-skewer-smudge them … Continue reading →

  Wash out your mouth and give me your shoes, you say, and I do but you choose to leave them laced placed on a shelf; walk no miles accept no smiles draw these tracks in permanent marker across our … Continue reading →

It isn’t until the sky explodes into a million fiery orange and scarlet slivers and the full fat moon fin -ally fades backstage that we realize this is the tomorrow that we talked about, and it’s time to go on … Continue reading →