Tag: haibun

  • The Tomb’s Testimony

    The Tomb’s Testimony

    Utter emptiness… The Galilean rabbi, whose preaching attracted multitudes, whose signs enthralled the masses, whose message comforted the afflicted & afflicted the comfortable, lies dead in a stone-cold tomb. As though it could be any other way I should know. Two righteous men placed him inside me. After he endured a travesty-of-a-trial by his co-religionist…

  • Savannah Sighs

    Savannah Sighs

    The Southern Live Oaks stretch their branches over the paths surrounding Forsyth Park. The Spanish Moss hangs off of them like scarves. & The Fountain raises its water toward the sky. The squares throughout the central streets, & the ornate architecture of Antebellum homes. The towering steeples of Churches, & the luscious vitality of River…

  • Full Charleston

    Full Charleston

    From the mayhem of pedestrians on a second Sunday Kings Street fair to the scrumptious Shrimp and Grits Brunch at S.N.O.B on East Bay Street. The Rainbow Row & south of Broad Street elegant houses, the Confluence of the Copper and Ashley Rivers by White Point Gardens, the long loop to and from the old…

  • Weighing the Risk

    Weighing the Risk

    Facing the last league of the Long Walk. The blanched branches of the naked-boughed elms and oaks, last sentinels of a long-dried-out forest, lie behind. The broad scope of an undiscovered country awaits. I can lay down my burdens here and proceed no more. Or I can continue to place one foot before another and…

  • Amor Linguae

    Amor Linguae

    As if it could be any other way… Savoring the sublime through language experiencing the true through language Feeling the heart race at the right word a pulse flutters at such uttered language exhausted yet engaging lyricality beholden to the subtlety of language Delightful to listen to the silence as though that isn’t the first…

  • Coleridgian Contrast

    Coleridgian Contrast

    not the “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” No wedding guests to mesmerize, nor grand stories to tell… no Albatross around my neck breaking dawn I’m no bane of goodwill birds, doomed to watch friends die… no grandiose dreams of Elysium living Just another wayfarer on the road to anywhere, soon to seek the way back…

  • Tea

    Tea

    Only of a particular variety, one can say… unfit for human consumption cuckhoo cry

  • Mortal Moments

    Mortal Moments

    That moment when his red-faced fury could turn on me… Or that moment when my back slid across the stones on the bottom of the Animus River, the surface tauntilizingly close, yet out-of-reach. Or that moment when all of my life lies in my past, as I exhale for the last time. cold rain a…