Above the Clouds

It used to be quiet here, a place where a god could think— plenty of open space and clear airwaves. But now the traffic is tyrannical. A herd of jets stampeding across the white plains without pause, without progression, endless loops to the same destination. Much like their passengers crisscrossing the heavens advancing, retreating, searching […]

Dreaming

I awoke in a body. Different than the one I inhabited moments before. One in which I held a small dog, stroked her head, but didn’t hatch an evil plot. No, I sat outside a café in Paris, sun warming my face, a book open on the table. I stopped reading to consider the dog […]

Iconoclast

I have a name I don’t know. It’s carved on a stone I’ve never seen. A stone that’s out there somewhere perhaps at the edge of a lake perhaps within reach of a child who will stuff it in his pocket, rest it on his nightstand. Or it will be such a smooth stone that […]

Upstream

I am not this stream bending gently around a strand of trees, a path of least resistance. I could be if I believed the end is a soft drop into the waiting hands of a placid lake, a calm sea. But who knows if this way becomes a torrent, a racing to the edge of […]