Tag Archives: Starlight Dances

For Starlight: cancione

I cannot claim to know her; at best, I’ve mapped the surface: those little nooks and crannies that she feels like revealing. More knowledge would not help me; to understand more deeply, would take a lifetime’s effort and skills beyond my grasping. But what she deigns to show me, that small part I can handle, in just over a decade
has become sun- and moon-rise: my alpha and omega. There is no life without her, no breath, no flowing current; she is my one and only. Continue reading

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What has the Earth to Do

What has the earth to do with air? They seem a most unlikely pair. Just look to the horizon, where they touch for miles, but cross nowhere. What has the sky to do with land? The ground will never understand; … Continue reading

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Cajun Woman

for Starlight Dances Looking for an answer, waiting on a clue, making myself dizzy thinking up new things to do. My cup runneth over; now it’s spilled out on the floor. Making messes, I can do for sure. Asking more … Continue reading

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You and Me Against the World

You and me against the world? Well, damn them folks to hell who think that they’re the passioned ones and we’ve nothing to sell, nor anything worth sharing except grand ideas and talk; I say, let’s keep believing in ourselves … Continue reading

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Country Style

for Starlight Dances What’s your hurry? Take it slow. We’ve got time, and don’t you know: there’s no place else I’ve got to go; take the phone off the hook for an hour or so. No point rushing; we’ve got … Continue reading

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Cottonmouth

My girlfriend saw it first: against the railing that runs along the length of the back porch, a greyish shadow slipping from the steps, behind the potted plants toward the light. As it began to turn toward the back door … Continue reading

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Lucky Number

I’m thinking about the Bakersfield sound, and a song by Merle Haggard in particular — “I Must Have Been Somebody Else You’ve Known”, which as far as I can tell is only available in a version by the International Submarine … Continue reading

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