Category Archives: Creative writing

Deadline

As the brain taps out and the deadline looms body and soul are trapped and locked in a cage on a rail that circles this room circles this room like the hands of a clock that ticks without speaking and … Continue reading

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scenes

The wheelbarrow full of loam lightly mixed with peat moss composted sheep manure the round-mouth spade rides jiggles gently atop and stops near the newly edged bed * * * Heat sings cicadic in the afternoon inverted book churches gardener’s … Continue reading

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Mauve and Gold

If a god were eating strawberries When that sunset happened, I know he’d stop in mid-bite With red sweet juice dribbling Down his chin onto his toga And just stare and do a god-thing: Make it pause, slow down for … Continue reading

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