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“In Here”
In the moments just prior to transcendence, she witnessed all of nature spreading out across her inner eye. There were vast acreages of ancient forests, cirques of steel-blue lakes bounded by icy cliffs, stars populating immense spaces in galaxy upon galaxy upon galaxy, hordes of streaming shooting stars, undulant meadows of richly colored flowers, and […]
Continue reading“Nature’s Dare”
“I saw these images and thought these thoughts. Nature harrowed me with her beauty. She attacked me and dared me to master her. As the sun, she flaunted her flames, born of a billion filaments of micro-light, a fusion of hydrogen to helium, an extrusion of the vivifying heat, the dazzle, the brilliance of all […]
Continue reading“Seduction of Nature”
“Nature was the celestial nymph of the Infinite come to seduce me. Like the seaborne semi-silk-draped enchantress in Cot’s The Storm, she floated enticingly close, near enough for me to feel her body warmth and smell the inner-earth scents of her form but too far away to capture her as my own. I could feel […]
Continue reading“The English Teacher”
“What drama and excitement there was in the classroom when Diepen first opened the pages of the great poem and begin to declaim its lines. His free left hand swept up above his head in vigorous gesticulation, pausing there momentarily before flipping up in a snap so that the palm faced the ceiling. The teacher […]
Continue reading“The Workshop”
“At times, Skylar followed his father down to the sacred space and watched him as he worked. To the boy, this was a magical, manly place, silent except for the sound of tools at work, organized to the point of perfection, filled with the wholesome smells of sawdust, oil, and Elmer’s glue. It was a […]
Continue reading“Attend, Attend!”
Across the spangled sea, upon whose ruffled surface dance the quivering mirrors of the sun’s reflected light, a thousand coded missives flash alerts. “Attend, attend!” they warn the watching eye. Attend, for here the boundless beauty of pure cosmic Truth in quick saltations springs upon your sight. The vastness of the oceanic spread, whose endlessness […]
Continue reading“Santa Cruz”
The sidewalk was brilliantly decorated with vermillion blossoms, as if the tree that formerly bore them had, like a Holi celebrant, flung richly colored powder all over the concrete. A promontory jutted far out into the Pacific like the snout of a gigantic lithic alligator. Boulders at the bottom of a cliff might have been […]
Continue reading“Under the Spell of the Moon”
“She went outside to observe the full buck supermoon. The moment she saw it, she fell under the spell of its trance magic. Waves of subtle energy streamed down from the great Luna, stripping her naked, bathing her body in soft caresses, lustrating her soul with invisible perfume. She fell completely under the power of […]
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