The rain pelted my face in short sharp jabs as I stroked harder up river. I kept tilting my head from side to side trying to minimize the contact with my skin, but the cold wet howl of the wind against my ears added a different kind of torture to endure. My oars slicing through the water in rapid succession were a fraction of the pace my mind was racing.

I had to be getting close. I had just pas...

“I asked hate the zoo, and I wish we never went” I told my mother as she drove out of the parking lot of the Zoo. I want to stay and look for Ben, my best bear; My best friend, but mom says we’ve looked all over. She keeps saying there’s only so much we can do, but when I lost my glasses she didn’t say that, Mom dug through the entire house for a week!

“He’s here, and you’re leaving him” I remin...

“Here, this is all I can find,” I say as I thrust two unmatched socks at my fashion forward thirteen year old son. I speed by him heading for the shoe mountain at the door.

“Let’s go! Shoes! Car! Now!” I declare to the rest of the house, for the third time might I add.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this, it’s Sunday. Self care day, Jesus, laundry, what ever you are into. I Had a whole list of...

Bitter, black, poured hot

Seething, molten lava, never roiling.

Cold in minutes, discarded desired then left, stained,

spoiling.

Acclimated taste, years of sugar coating

Morning then into the evening always sharing,

delighting.

Comforted, warmed, outside and in.

Desiring

Uniquely yours, uniquely mine

Remembering, a Silent caring.

Ubiquitous, now boring

Jitters, blank staring

Luke warm, stal...

My steps are slow, and deliberate. One foot carefully, then the other. Darkness falls like a blanket around me, as the shadows on the hills around me play havoc in my mind. I can feel movement just out of my view, and pause to asses it, Nothing…

It’s always nothing. Until the time it’s not I remind myself as Dinos face flashes in my mind. I adjust my grip as I release the tension in my neck, but ...