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Blue Moon

Blue moon, a seconding visit siring silky ice. Adrift between aurora and dusk, the morning’s gold attempts to boost winter’s frosted eminence up — out of the way. But budge it won’t; to my delight. Shards of glacial air penetrate…

Coin

I heard an old “Beatles” song the other day. One of the verses goes, “I don’t know why you say good-bye, I say hello.” It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that like many pop songs it’s about…

Empty

Cry from the shadowed place, mourning ingests the hollowing core. The void obligates, burnishing the binding ring crafted long ago. We thread our way through this incarnation to a gallery populated by sorrows and joys of choices made, and lives…

Ardis

There is a time and place for everything. When you’re young your gonna do it all; climb every mountain, ford every stream, follow every rainbow till you find your, yada — yada — yada. That changes over time. Grinding out…

Retirement

Retirement Visions of Margaritas or Martinis by the pool abound. Days of leisure extend to the horizon, no matter how foreshortened the distance to that vista may be. This is the vision for many about how retirement should be. The…

Appolonia

Appalonia The somberly dressed family stares out of a formal portrait taken in the early part of the last century, Michael and Appolonia surrounded by their eleven children. The brothers and sisters in their turn had eighty-one children. From there…