The world is a beautiful place…when you have courage. When you don’t…not so much. I would know. I balled like a baby when Dorothy smacked me right in the kisser. Imagine! A King of the Jungle sopping the ground with his own sobs. Those were days […]
a cool summer breeze a time to sow or to reap every moment I lay my burden down to pick it up again The last taste of burgundy rests in the well of a used wine glass. She strolls the garden after rinsing something in the […]
[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The Wild has always called me. Out of the depths of a child’s imagination came marching a parade of derivative characters. Then the moments of rapt attention: a tricyle turned upside down: I turned over my rusty red tricycle in the […]
Mira and I walk at Kakiat Park. The rain-swollen Mahwah River cascades under the bridge. It foams the rocky bank where a lone fisherman fishes. We turn onto the blue trail toward the tributary feeding the river. Or is it the river? The cold ground doesn’t mud […]
Photo by Henry Be on Unsplash “On a hot, summer night: would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?” –Meatloaf Warning: Do not awaken my favorite vice. For lust will pulsate through my trembling arteries with every quickened beat of a suddenly hungry heart. […]
Husband, Father, Writer, Teacher. American Haijin. Because Haikai matters!
