People can perceive a smile from 300 feet away. Your eyes light up, though that I cannot see, and unknowingly, my mouth corners tug at my lips. Faces are made to mimic one another, so even when I have the capability of five thousand other,…

My grandfather had a deep, rumbling way of chucking that came from deep within at things he found amusing – me, mostly. Originating in a large belly promulgated by years of jovial beer drinking his chortle still echoes When he was amused my grandfather’s best…

2022 prompt/hour 11: “In memory of Helen”   I walk there, to see her – taking a folding chair I cannot go in  – between covid and cancer treatment it isn’t safe I sit beneath her verandah – she on her own chair, well above…

Hour- 11 The eternal lamp of your expression has lit The world has become illumined are you leaving the aroma from your lips Fragrant all-around fizz The voice of birds sitting silent echoed are you chuckling Many pearls fall from the clouds In between your…

Hour 11, Prompt 11 (the twisted tree image)   Entwined (this one is by the character Nigel Taiman from my world of Onweald)   I might have forgotten this day to mention when the first sun spread dawn’s pale blue across our bed how perfectly…

This was not the plan How could it be? For you to be there with him and for me to again be alone You were never committed to this that is clear to me now This was our problem How do you not see that?…

We sit side-by-side on the bleachers on our street It’s been a long school term so we fill each other in I tell you about the boy I like   “Our first kiss was like magic It wasn’t quick or like the marriage of lips…

early morning commotion in the local park. a group of seniors gathered together were creating a ruckus. a few joggers and walkers stopped to watch their one antic. all were doing the same action, standing with feet apart and raising their forelimbs gently, stretching their…