Poetry: The Oak Tree at the Edge of the World
There is an oak tree at the end of a winding road Out passed the beaches and the ritzy mansions, Up on a cliff at the edge of the world. – I visited it with her in the spring of…
Category Creative Writing
Color Me Into the Sky – Poetry Film
This is a film of my poem “Color Me Into the Sky,” written for the Vocal poetry competition, which had the theme color poetry expressing the self. It was an interesting competition, not the least of which for the minimum…
Short Story: The Dancer
What does it mean to get lost in the dance? I arrive late in the evening. She opens the door, half shocked that I’m even there. We sit in different chairs with Japanese food between us. Sushi, fish and some…
Creative Writing: To Be Alive Again
Two men enter. Both are young. Ray is frantic, over-excited, pushing to the front of the stage and eager to seemingly shout at the audience in front of him. The other (Mort) is more cautious, quiet on his toes, working…
Creative Writing: The Beautiful Literal Truth
The Beautiful Literal Truth: There’s this thing when people say “reach for the stars,” but those same people, you’d never find them standing alone one night out in the far countryside with their arms outstretched to the night time sky.…