July 2, 2025
The Garden Dance
I crank on the hose, feeling the grass beneath my feet as the sun begins its rose-colored descent, taking its violence with it. A violence that has cracked open the earth and drank it dry. I begin to spray; large droplets of water shoot past my thumb and land on the cracked soil.
May 20, 2025
I’ve been sitting on this story for about a decade, but it keeps resurfacing and remerging, like a stick that disappears only to be brought back up by the current of life. I can sense that currant shifting, the course of this gentle ebb and flow giving way to the great turner of the tide and calmer of the storm.