Words of Light: Grace & Truth for Your Journey Home
First in the Toronto Triology Wu, wu, wu, warns the walk signal. Tick, tick, ba plays somewhere. What makes that unvarying sound? Footsteps shuffly and lazy or staccato and driven all rush past in the cacophony of the wordless voices of passersby. Vehicle motors… Continue Reading “She Never Sleeps”
In which brainwashing is revealed, a control freak acknowledges that her best friend is too sick for her to heal, the Spirit drowns out the preacher, and eyes leak salt water.
Dear elder little brother, Last week you turned eight–an authentic hollow leg, growing like a bean plant on a pole, big front teeth, want to help Dad kind of eight. As I watched you puff out those candles with two gusty blows and choose… Continue Reading “8”
We got up as our world revolved into the sun, my aunt and I. We strolled in the stillness to the shoreline and slipped into our own kayaks. The water lay smooth as ice but still fluid. Our paddles dipped into the water sending… Continue Reading “Travel Journal: Northern Reflections III”
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