Grasping

tripping deeply a proverbial big toe caught on something unseeable like jet black stone on dark path at night and being unseen, remaining unknowable, like the vague face of a passerby calling out your name while your steady powers of facial recall fail to produce a name and draw into doubt the idea that you really ever knew […]

Rise and Fall

The long hard gradual awakening remnant of a bruised slumber peels and rends like dry burned skin leaving charred sheets burdened with little tears of yesterday in small pools clinging fast making small salt edged circles on the fading woodwork of old memories

The Struggles of Memory

Thoughts drip down and away into a river jammed with memories like logs packed together and raging from top of open mind to the closed bottom groaning under pressure and their own desire to be free of the banks and confines of the mind to sail alone, peacefully, one at a time like a swimmer […]