Tales Out of Court #1

Hello fellow Bloggers and beautiful people everywhere!  I hope y'all are doing well and thriving today. It's been a year since I wrote my last Copperhead County short story, which was my response to a List Story Blogger Challenge, something I had never tried before.  If you're interested, you can read it here, and of …

Damned Cold

I don't know if this qualifies as an occasional poem or not.  Certainly it refers to a very specific moment in United States history, but it's rather opaque and somewhat vague so may present some barriers to understanding for future generations of readers or those outside of the early 21st-century American political & cultural milieu.  …

Strikethrough: A Dirge for Acquaintances No Longer Plagued by Addiction

I rarely have cause to feel sad, if you want to know the truth, but I’m down today, way down in the blue deeps with thoughts as bleak as the tempestuous sky. Ponderous clouds in endless shades of gray track as slowly across the sky as passersby shuffle along the rain-slick street, shoulders slumped and …

A Dream of Flight

My friend Soph at Sophia Ismaa Writes knows how much I love to spin a good yarn and knows I'm almost always a sucker for a good tag.  The other day, Soph tagged me with this awesome new (to me, anyway) storytelling challenge.  Thank you, Soph!  After reading her wonderful story, which I hope y'all …

I’ve Been Published!

Hello friends & fellow Bloggers!  I hope y'all're doing well on this fine Friday.  The weather here in middle Tennessee is damnear perfect today.  It's a mild, partly sunny 80 degrees with a sky full of wispy white and fluffy gray clouds being pushed along by a gentle, almost autumnal breeze here in my little …

Moon Shot

Via Dave Kingsbury's Moon Shot tanka challenge Dave Kingsbury at A Nomad in Cyberspace posted a beautiful, evocative tanka today and challenged followers to add their own "in the hope that . . . the whole thing turns out to be somehow greater than the sum of its parts." Here's Dave's kickstarter tanka: Eyes down …

Truths: A Sestina

From time to time, I check my old journals, notebooks, filing cabinets, or Word files to see what I wrote when I was much younger.  I do so not just to find something to post here but to see what I had to say back then and how what I thought and wrote as a …

The Immortals

Except for a few brief periods in my life, I have never been much of a rebel, and even then it was mundane rebellion, the same kind, I reckon, that most American teens & 20-somethings go through on their way to real adulthood. Of course, in my line of work, I deal with rebels every …

Owed to Mundanity

Bring it on, Monday, hit me with your best shot!  I am ready for you: Y'all like my Monday face? I had hoped to astonish you today with a brilliant poem, a glittering monument to my stunning skill and my felicitous facility with words, but this is all I came up with.  I know you'll …

A Poem, Some Pics

Given the schizophrenic weather we've been experiencing in recent months, I thought this poem appropriate for the occasion, and seeing as how it's about the seasons, I reckoned I'd throw in a few pics from hikes I took in 2 different seasons.  Enjoy, and please do let me know what you think. Changing Seasons Snowflakes …