poetry & lyrics
Wrong Number
Like chapter and verse the wrong numbers pop up in my phone: 404:767:0431 and 770:471:9255 and of course the apocryphal “Unknown”- calling me every morning and afternoon looking for the same person, “Lanett Character” And like Bartley the Scrivener I’ve abided months of sermonette after sermonette of the addressed person’s trespasses, late bills, possible eviction, [...]
grayness
the ashes pile up in the corner the nuthatch flies overhead actually, it bobbles around oblivious, in front of the window. its one of those double pained windows where the moisture has gotten in and so the interior gray-blue tones dominate my purview maybe even more-so, since its overcast outside I’m dreaming about a big [...]
Every day stations of the cross
Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law had reached a decision. But they had run out of coffee beans and so they waited for someone to make a quick run to Starbucks before making any public statements. A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of [...]
