Educational Sights
Haibun Brightly decorated bulletin boards show off fraction worksheets and reading logs. A table outside Ms. Flynn’s classroom has a ball suspended in water or a magnet-with magnets around. Frankie, Stephan, James and another...
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White Flames
Poem White flames Set fire to bones: Lights me up From the inside out. My limbs are on fire, Like the kindling in a tree Licked clean to the bones By the blaze....
Animal Dilemmas – Worm Dragon
Short Story The Dragon watched the Panda turn around. Its left eye detected he light from outside and the Panda followed it. The Dragon stood at the mouth of the cave long after...
The Baker, The Butcher and The Brewer, Part Four – The Brewer 8
Serial Fiction Paint! Paint! Paint! Talent, ideas, brilliance, genius, drive, motivation, environment, support are all not be underestimated. They all boil down to taking notes and believing in their merits. They all take...
Reunion of Death – Part Ten
Serial Fiction continued from part nine Grinning from ear to ear, Seth said, “Hi handsome,” and leaned in for a kiss. There in that little restaurant waiting for him patiently was Philip....
Res Waterfall
Haibun The waterfall foams as it rushes over weathered black rocks. Its steady roar is a constant, alluring song whose lyrics I almost make out. Almost. sunlight gleaming from running water just sitting...
The Golden Trapeze
Poem Movement humming Cicadas in the trees Peace swinging in the willows Velvet rays beam A golden trapeze Singing across meadows Reflections bending Illusory shadows Hoping for more to see Waiting for novelty Expecting...
Death of a Karaganda January
Poem The world swims into focus And I pick the burden back up, Smile and wave. Through my special glasses, some days, Is the only way I can bear it. Drudgery has eaten...
Tableaux Vivants
Poem The snowflakes fluttered down amongst the glassed-in saplings in the middle of the boxy concrete monument to color and swirling forms how within the cold we had somehow found the most majestic...
Faith, or Lack Thereof
Esoteric Poem O secrets that you keep old Faith That draw upon my simple sorrow Your unknown the most tantalizing bate Knowing yesterday of my return tomorrow O secrets that you keep old...
