Reprieve
This morning, in the pre-dawn hours a storm raged through my town with flashes of lightening and loud, rolling thunder. The aftermath has been a gray day of drizzle. Depressing, you say? Not for me. I laid in my bed this morning listening to the drum rolls of thunder and the windblown rain against […]
Desert Places
I am drawn to the stark honesty of poets, who with an economy of words express a truth that often alludes my own verbiage. Robert Frost, in his poem “Desert Places” writes:
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars–on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To […]
