Archive for December, 2008
Innocense Lost
Dry November leaves blanketed the walkway. She shuffled through, the way children often do — the last of the morning stragglers, trying to get to class before the final bell. She hesitated for several seconds, then reluctantly climbed the stairs — her expression one of defiance. As I reached out, tears filled her eyes — [...]
I WRITE TO YOU
I WRITE TO YOU I don’t understand…. On the lachrymose memories of the path, the dark shadows of a night flow uninterrupted. I don’t know you still. Something remained like the golden freezing drops that woke in the eyes of the twin leaves, someday, after a heart wrenching rain. Now only the salt remains, melting [...]
There
There’s always been that unnamable but familiar something within you that I knew was mine. It stirs interstitially within my being, whirling and pulsating between my tissues, radiating outward – magnetically searching to connect with that part of itself residing in you. It seeks completeness – potentiality fulfilled – and when you’re too far away [...]
One of Brazil’s great philosophers, Tim Maia, once said: “I decided to go on a strict diet. I cut out alcohol, all fats and sugar. In two weeks I lost 14 days”. For 28 years I have been living with a marvelous woman who now and again loses her temper and her usual good humor [...]
Musa
I. it is in distance i come very close to her, the guilt more real and unforgiving – a moment quivering with so much nearness. her breath hot on my face, scent caressing my lips, the magic of the reach between us haunts this hour when sins are too holy for their meanings, too pure [...]
