Frostbitten When breathing grows sharp and the skin flushes with a burn a frostbitten sky sending the cold when the winter falls like night with snow hugging the ground we tuck ourselves in layers against chilled elements we lean into the weather pushing into breathtaking wind carrying the memory of flowers the season shifts and … Continue reading Frostbitten
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Another Springtime #MondayBlogs
In another springtime the bees stumbled through the lilacs as the cottonwoods shaded the sun In that other springtime lawn mowers played the soundtrack to every Saturday morning as the parks filled with chatter In some other springtime laughter was an easy sound overlooked and automatic a punctuation to joy or silliness In another springtime … Continue reading Another Springtime #MondayBlogs
Comfort
Comfort We treat grief like an injury as if six weeks could heal us instead we need that long convalescence the comfort of soft things the warmth of home the routines that bring us calm grief does not know an end because love does not die so we wrap ourselves in comfort creating our own … Continue reading Comfort
As Pure As… #MondayBlogs
We seek the driven snow that blinding white of grief and purity before the turn in weather before the greys of sleet the world unmarked by human steps we rest in the silence of a world muffled in cold blooming into ice and frost - Caroline A. Slee
We Remember #MondayBlogs
We Remember In a world that denies truth we remember we speak though hatred wishes for compliance we remember the millions who were silenced and stolen and murdered we remember our history though some would rewrite it our eyes bear witness to man's worst destruction we remember what must never happen again - Caroline A. … Continue reading We Remember #MondayBlogs
Lamentations #MondayBlogs
Lamentations #MondayBlogs The sky is choked with dust and wind the stars have dropped from sight the world still turns on its axis and time still makes her demands but the life we held to yesterday is no longer what stands before us darkness lingers and fills every space as we begin to seek the … Continue reading Lamentations #MondayBlogs
In Another Place
In Another Place A part of me remains in another place while you have moved beyond what my eyes can see And the world feels too big too bright and too loud for the me that stands here while you are no more My heart overflows with every unspoken future the calls I will not … Continue reading In Another Place
The Pages No Longer Turn
A snippet of grief
Winter Leaves
The winds clear the winter leaves forgotten in the universe standing upon dead silent streets the very last left on earth And should the sky choose to fall in a final act of outrage still we would heed the hint of promise to keep us locked in our circle The wheel keeps spinning until we … Continue reading Winter Leaves
The Boogeyman
The Boogeyman Night vision changes the world a perspective shift that changes our depths and heights the smallest moments tower over us taking on new, dizzying proportions large shadows loom as ominous portents but only holding their fearsome presence for the scant hours the sun allows darkness fades and clear vision returns giants reduced to … Continue reading The Boogeyman