July 4th Fireworks
[Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest non fiction category.] Have you ever seen fireworks in broad daylight? Often associated as a nocturnal sighting, I was mesmerized to hear them implode above us on July 4th, 2020.
Second Day
January 13, 2021 One of these days I'll turn the right way when I exit the stairwell. I'll confidently walk...
Functional Depressive
How are you? I Inhale. And I’m quickly reminded that this was first real breath I’ve taken all day How...
elpis
fleetingly she glimpsed by --- a backyard hummingbird fluttering, feeding her hatchlings: spiny, naked little things, blind and squirmy, perilously...
The Healing Dream
It is morning; it is spring. And in the dew, the mountains woo. Distantly heard, the roosters crow; and past...
Reverence
There are moments where you will find No past Or present Or future. Only eternity; An instant that stretches on...
Enjoy The Little Things
[Third place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest photography category.] One afternoon, while I was taking a walk in the...
Shelter-In-Place Syndrome
I am keeping a prisoner; This breath I took two weeks ago; I refuse to let it leave; It paces...
Widdershins Round
There are days in August when you can hear the grass reaching for the sun. Long days where the air...
Induction
[Tied for third place in the Synapse Storytelling Contest creative writing category.] June 20, 2020 Just breath deeply - I...