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Hear the children cryin'

Some mornings I wake from dreams that don’t announce themselves as dreams. They slip into the day like breath into fog. One in particular lingered...
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Cherry

The Fox and the Elm Tree

For Julia and Robert. And for Coral and Sarah.
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Merman

Fishhooks in your pocket jangle as you wade away to the fog-pressed pier. You use a knife to descale fish, split bone. The kettle screams, I flinch—...
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Lausanne Epilogue

Some mornings I wake before the alarm. The dog lifts her head, watches me for a second, then exhales and settles back into herself. I sit there in...

I Need To Protect My Heart!

Decades ago, I started work. Years later we all found out, that money is given as a reward for certain years worked. Then after many years it was...

Courtship and the next generation

In years gone by a lad would court the girl whose love and hand he sought in marriage: she had time to think– had she a liking to be caught by this...

A Jubilee couple

A Jubilee couple To you, our accolades for a voyage of five decades With exemplary conjugal harmony thwarting many adversities, in the journey...
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After Lausanne

Messages continued to trickle back and forth — a song here, a film there, a shared memory plucked from the 90s like an old dry flower still faintly...

Arjun! Stay blessed

A rjun! Stay blessed Happy Birthday is on your way today being celebrated with pomp and gay Hey Arjun our dear grandson your parents’ uncles ' and...

FACE.

Over the two weeks, I didn’t watch any of the tennis. A yearly sport that I grew up watching and enjoyed most of my life, now it seemed all the...