ArtMerry Xmas 2021
I've been hand drawing a card since getting married 40 years ago. We became grandparents this year and my wife thinks the baby is…
PoetryDew
Rest easy unborn while the warm air cools without a sun a dark blanket growing damp until gravid with aqueous eggs delivered to each…
PoetryThe Remember Tenure
After she died I thought I’d miss her being here. But I got over that. Now I know what I miss is never knowing…
PoetryCycling Dhyana
Takes a few miles to get there. Gotta get warmed up calibrate to conditions get through the lights outta traffic. Find a rhythm a…
PoetryHum Along
There’s a hum under all the noise the quiet voice of silence a sound of void filling muted noise like the dark of night…
PoetryGetting Help
I try to keep an appearance of a well-manicured lawn but my moles keep showing up hungry, silently heaving sod. And I gotta lot…
PoetryQuietus
He’s old now, very old living in a recliner reading his favorite book about death feeling like an eaglet in a treetop nest curious…
PoetryDo Not Resuscitate
He was positive at 96 approved for hospice care on O2 and morphine to make labored breathing comfortable. His last thought was walking from…
PoetryIkebana
When I withhold desire to sate the empty vase is when I saunter through the garden a virtual arrangement of flora on feet on…
PoetryIt still happens
When I don’t think about breathing, it still happens. When I don’t think about living in the moment, it still happens too.
PoetrySince then I’ve never said she died
Her hand in my grasp passed from warm to cool to cold. I got home finished a drink noticed how the ice cubes passed…
Art, PoetryREMY, LULU, AND THE BIG NOSE
A short story I drew/wrote for my 3 year old nieces. —Tom Strong
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