Tag: light
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Firearm
When I think of how couples can be so cruel to one another just before turning out the light and falling asleep, and how many keep a loaded firearm in the bedroom, I’m terrified by the increased chance that one of those guns will find its way into a mouth that’s about to fall asleep […]
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Stone Huts
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be a room where everything you looked at was you, and where everything you ever wanted could be had with a glance or touch. I like the idea of learning from an old mentor one who has a long white beard as big as he is, […]
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Deer
I used to walk out into this field and hide behind a fallen tree where I’d watch the deer lounge in the tall grass, and I’m thinking this time alone with them made me start to think more like a deer than a human. I guess from far enough away we all throw specks of […]
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Dirt
When I was one of those kids teachers talk about after everybody’s left for the day, digging in the dirt was the only thing that made me feel clean enough to inhabit. So there I was, in the grasses behind our back yard, with just my feet sticking out of the earth my cupped little […]
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Dark, Light
I don’t care what I write tonight, just that I do, which I know, sort of sounds like I’m saying yes to a marriage I don’t really believe in and I’d be lying if I said writing for me wasn’t like that sometimes, full of the kind of doubt that feels around in the dark […]
the real subject is always you 