December 2020 Writing

The dog can’t believe we’ve taken off his leash, and in a place like this. He runs towards the sea, his paws four scuttling shadows on the darker sand. He plants his scruffy bandy legs and pivots back to me, trembling with a thudding hope. “It’s ok, go on!” I call,...

what if I told you that today I took a gun and went looking to thrust it into the face of someone helpless with the intention to discover just what makes for the thrill of it but then the old lady appeared   I saw her quite like myself, saw I was incapable but...

My Mamaw was tomato dumplins and nine youngins proud dirt floor but we ain’t poor proud Kentucky bluegrass and get off your ass proud   This ain’t no elegy this is what lives in me   green hills horseshoe the cabin down the holler Papaw’s coon dogs forage on...

Year End Hoe Down     How we use to lick mirrors just for the sound. Ecstatic rolling on the barn floor. Smearing faces with mud to mask to writhe into one team of hearts.   Fingers interlaced foreheads bumping rhythm on the stable door.    Before...

Weariness is grey smoke choking on snakeskins of youth. Deflated heart, once ripe as the harvest moon. Loved on, tended. Blessed in stone cathedrals with silky stone floors and barren pews. Muffled eyes peer in space. Time is a tinkered thought. Lacey snowflakes bury...

Turning Around Effective Dec. 19, 2020 The playground at Paynes Creek Historic State Park is now open for public use. 11,682 new cases of COVID-19 are officially registered in Florida.   Any of us just replicas of old forts some Spanish, some against each other,...

‘Can’t say what happened between conception and five’ Koll jokes. ‘Six, they send me off to school, and eight, it all blows up.’ Koll’s attributes are negative from here out. Small town. Everybody knows. Hellos of relatives push through like ice. Happy Holidays. ‘Not...

Please don't feel obligated to put notes to all of these or any of these. If something stirs or moves or you see something that could help me find the next draft. I'd really like to read some work from all our peeps in here. Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday...

Hi everyone! I'm just making sure that the posting function works for December.