alone | Pretty All True

Brittle sifting

I sat down to write today. I sat down to write about a sensation that occasionally floods my being with a reality other than the one before me. This sensation is ephemeral and fleeting. I reach for what it is . . . and it is gone.

A memory? A dream? An imagined something?

…Brittle sifting

Thumbprint

Freezing wintry cold.

I wait. With the other children, but apart. As always.

At the bus-stop.

I wait for the heavy doors to swing open, and I step up the black rubbery steps. Out of the freezing wintry cold and into the only slightly warmer space of the school-bus. Hurry down the aisle, stepping …Thumbprint

Orange Vision

I sit, holding an orange in a sunny room alone as my family moves around me. One of those weird moments in which I feel as though I am here but not here. The sunlight hits my back and casts my shadow across the floor, but I have been rendered seemingly invisible in my …Orange Vision

Pretty All True

Search

Recent Posts

Quondam

Available on Kindle!

Brittle sifting

Thumbprint

Orange Vision

Take me with you