Category Archives: lotus eaters

about people who are not facing the here and now, but have to be there and then on cell phones and ipods

cave door

spring sits out there just over the horizon fussing about making a grand entrance of that I am sure and so is the cashier who handles $89.64 worth of impulse buys while discussing the weather as if my pathetic shopping … Continue reading

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the builders

In ancient caves eons past the hunt was crayoned onto walls in elegant soft coloured stone on stone the glorious drama of their lives In ancient pyramids millennia past kings and pharaohs lay entombed as gods the epic stories of … Continue reading

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Jay-Gee closes

We walked down the almost empty main street in bright cold March sunshine bare pavement rimmed by bulging snowbanks we stepped over one opalescent ice stream that made this patch of concrete treacherous The silence was Shakespearian no birds in … Continue reading

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