the latest posts tagged ‘stars’
turn turn turn
Waiting for someone you love to die, I told a writer friend last week, is one of the circles of Hell. He said, “You should write about your view from the spiral because you will never be exactly there again.” It is a monstrous eyewall, the inside of a spinning, screaming…
Blue Toes and The Universe
My bare feet, toes painted with blue “I Know What Boys Like” and random white polka dots, step from downward dog one two to meet my hands on the mat, head and shoulders relax, exhale, forehead inches from knees. Inhale, back straight, arms loose, pivot at hips, raise chest to right angle, exhale back down,…
In The Dark
Our house is in an oasis of Dark Sky on a low ridge west of Black Mountain. Here, without fences, our neighbors’ gardens slip into the canyons that follow our street downhill to its dead end in a stand of sycamores, their thirsty roots clutching the clay and rock scrabble in the arroyo. There are…