Scribbled in the Snow
It shines in the garden,in the white foliage of the chestnut tree,in the brim of my father’s hatas he walks on the gravel.Mark Strand, The Garden Midday today, it started […]
It shines in the garden,in the white foliage of the chestnut tree,in the brim of my father’s hatas he walks on the gravel.Mark Strand, The Garden Midday today, it started […]
Soft as pillows,unbroken sea of snow,free untilwe carve our tracksnorthward boundweek upon weekthrough white-out, stormsand april sunsnow both path and beduntil at lastwe reach an endto meet the spring. A […]
She breaks the whiteto fragments of eternal hues,never caringif they match the draperies of absent suns;she ceased to care about horizonsto gaze above for verticalsto climb,escape from the gilded cageof […]
The cages that we buildwith screenswith updates, likes and chatswith never sitting down to eatdiscuss or face a friend. We watch the stories, reelsof people eatingbrewing, bakingsometimes making stuffbelieving it’s […]
Once, believing in dawnas sunrisekissing pinkness in the cloudsclose to never and foreveris this dooman extinction of use? Less light when nearto winter solsticeas inkspilled we stumbleensnaredin lugubrious gloomsleepless and […]
Writing about living in two places (and times)
Poems & Stories from The Author Stew
practising for a whole life
haikai poetry matters
Running in the slow lane
The view from here ... Or here!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
chronicling my quarter life crisis