i can't make my spirit be quiet and listen ( Read more... )

 
The sun was starting to set and it was warm enough still for mom to let us go out with barefeet. I layed on my stomach in the tall grass with a pair of kitchen scissors in my hands.

The air smelled like charcoal and chlorine.

Brandon and Brett had gone home to finish their homework, but would come back over after it was done. Mom had said that ( Read more... )

 
The music was loud and bad inside. Standing outside of the bar, I could still feel it shaking the boards underneath my feet. I rested my head against the beam and tried to make the world stop spinning. I could smell the food from work in the uniform I was still wearing, and the smoke in my hair from the cigarette I'd just finished.

It was freezing ( Read more... )

I made almost 150 dollars at Manhattan's on Saturday night. Thank God. Literally. I've been so short on money in the past month that I prayed for it last week. Money's always been tight, but not a problem really. I've had enough to cover my bills when I've needed it. But with the unexpected doctor bills in the past few months, it's been a stretch ( Read more... )

He layed his head on my chest. Thumped-thumped the rhythm of my heart with his fingers on my side. I looked at the top of his dark head and touched the small hairs beside his ears with my little finger. He didn't jump and shake it off the way he usually did.

I told myself, these are the moments I stay for. There is hope. Such a hard man was capable ( Read more... )

9)yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. 10)Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. 11)See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: ( Read more... )

last night,
my brother asked me if
i would live with him
on an island bought with
won lottery cash.

he wants to raise our cousin-children
in the sun and surf.

he wants to climb trees
and fish naked.

we tried sushi for
the first time together,
and I think that first will drive
any man to seek out
the simple.

or at least, it will motivate
a country man to ( Read more... )

who will listen

when all i want, is
to not be another
poet needing to talk
about this nostalgia.

blessed and broken a p a r t,
like dinner rolls

brought on by music
put down, and picked
up again too soon

you

will not,
   darling, but

i

remember the cold weather
that made you want
to warm me up,

the way we touched 
so carefully

in the first moments
we  ( Read more... )

it was warm ( Read more... )

Well, it's happened ( Read more... )