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“The Woods”
“Skylar lay on his blanket under a sun faintly warm, like the smile of a once-beautiful but now aging woman, beneath a mackerel sky seemingly created by Aeolus sneezing in his bubble bath and sending the suds across the heavens. Large and small, dense and more-widely outspread, crescents, filaments, balls, balloons, wedges, and tufts; some […]
Continue reading“A Room of Magic”
“As if by the sweep of a godly hand or the spelling baton of an awful magus, the vast work room, dedicated to laborious and painstaking process, would many times be transformed into a studio sacred to the arts. The scientific apparatus disappeared as though it had been a mirage and, in its place, rose […]
Continue reading“The Surf”
“Isolated, the lone prow-rock, its top filigreed with bird-ordure, stood gloomy in the fading light, alternately burnt umber, drab, and gray-brown at various heights. It could equally well have been the tiller of a colossal stone ship of a mythic race. Adjacent masses must have crumbled, leaving it to make a courageous last stand against […]
Continue reading“A Child’s First Florida”
“For the first time, the sight of the ocean, in half-light under a partial moon, agleam with the tender lunar light caressing its surface, the deep bass explosions of the surf as it hit the beach, its ever recurrence. Smells of salt and rotted sea-vegetation. Powerful concussions, like those of sea-launched artillery shells, booming and […]
Continue reading“Only One Goal”
“All these masters of the highest science, spirituality, though they spoke in different metaphors and employed different terms, described the identical, the highest goal: human enlightenment. They called it the kingdom of heaven, self-knowledge, nirvana, satori, oneness, self-realization, but, no matter the label, it was enlightenment all the same. But, because these saints sought to […]
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