Friday, March 2, 2018

The Reckoning

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In the pictures  we seldom smiled. Stubborn children  forced to pause and pose before the hearth  in the cabin  in the woods in th...
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Monday, February 26, 2018

Woodville Wildlife Festival

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Woodville Courthouse All the artists set up around the courthouse square beneath the oaks, the resurrection fern swollen and green ...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Gollum

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Before Gollum had tasted the power of The Ring, when he still had family with whom to sing in the Gladden Fields,...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Poor Monster

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In the quiet morning, beneath the cashmere calm, behind the dog's soft snoring and the purring knead of pink-ed flesh, a chi...
Friday, January 12, 2018

The Weight of Water

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The wind whispers secrets soon to be revealed.  Pushes him along. There is no cure. He shuffles. Small steps. Unsure fo...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Suicide is Painless

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People will go to any lengths for fame, won't they? In the May, 1800 edition of a Natchez Newspaper, Thomas Thackwood advertized his ...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

The Phantom of Kingston Road

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The first time I noticed him it was the holidays – I can’t remember if it was Thanksgiving or Christmas. I was driving home on Kingston Ro...
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Saturday, November 18, 2017

Falling Leaves

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Perhaps it would be better if I don’t speak. Reflect the silence back into the water, listen to the evening come to help  the night...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

So long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good Night...

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I bet I've lost over 35 friends and parents of friends in the last ten years.  Sometimes it seems as though I have more dead friends tha...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

In a Hollow Space

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A Hollow Space   By Elodie Pritchartt "The big sweetgum by the front gate finally died."   Every death affected him these days, an...
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