a poem is a sermon
It’s raining and the air is cold, the skies are dark and gray There’s not a speck of sunshine on this January day And not a smile or cheerful word is spoken or displayed Sometimes the world is like that, or at least it seems that way It’s raining, and the gutters rattle with a […]
Along the edge of the levee, atop the slow hill slanting up against the bank of the canal there is a worn down path of grass that leads from just nearby my house to where the water meets the lake. This morning, feeling rather bold I took a detour down this track just to see […]
All these years spent riding the eye of the storm, at the edge of the wind and the rain, ahead of the weather, before it could form, you’d think patterns would make themselves plain. But the nature of the cyclone is spun from without; subtle shifts in the slipstream can deceive. You can read the […]
So, there I was … taking my 2:00 p.m. lunch break (I work from New Orleans on Pacific Coast Time). Here is the scenario: I am sitting at a table under the carport that is covered with books, catalogs, flyers, etc. Bearing in mind that it IS 2:00 p.m., regardless there is a candle lit, […]
There was a strange quiet to the morning air before the streetlights blinked their last, and the pale moon still shone from its place in the sky. It was already warm and wet, the dew rising from the ground only a short way and then sagging back to earth as the weight of the motionless […]
To see the stump there in the yard, Its edges barely higher than the grass, You’d never know the tree that made A stand in that spot for so long. You might, when seeing flowered sprouts From that dead trunk, imagine it; But unless you’d seen it growing, For you there would not be much […]
The heavy August air sits like an insolent child sulking under the carport where the breeze can’t get to it, if it even tried to do so down the fractured street that no longer even pretends to be the straight and narrow it clings like a moldy, mildewed straitjacket against the concrete and staggered magnolias […]