~Letters from the Monastery of My Heart: XXX~

By WordWulf, 3rd Apr 2011 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/10297y_m/
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~ I am struck by the feather ~ of your soft reply ~ Jim Morrison ~ the bluebird carries the sky on his back ~ Nietzsche ~ we're not in Wonderland anymore Alice ~ Charles Manson ~ leave no black plume as a token ~ Poe ~ bullets & feathers together ~ WW ~

~Letters from the Monastery of My Heart: XXX~

~A Feather In the Grass~

~A Feather In the Grass~

Stones in the driveway and cigarette butts, wonder who put them there. Was it the woodpecker whose incessant pounding on the gable of the house next door would give anyone else a headache. I don’t think so. The smallest of those stones would be too much for the woodpecker to carry and cigarette butts aren’t its style.

The coal train on approach, earthquake of the snake growls deep, electromagnetic, four engines in front, two behind, a hundred and thirteen cars between them, pushed and pulled, wheels groaning, riding the rails, clickety-clack, smashing my pennies, feeding my spirit, cross tie walkin’, pick ‘em up, lay ‘em down, put ‘em in your pocket, you silly, hoary-headed, boy.

Wishing and praying for miracles is not a waste of time. It is an investment in the future, a testament, avowal of faith, sometimes a requiem to lost love, a whispered cry to be found again. We are the cricket singing, the coyote howling lonely for its mate, a tumble-me-down in giggles, simple and innocent children of earth, a tender-moment awaiting a kiss to seal.

~Tom (WordWulf) Sterner~
~Letters from the Monastery of My Heart: XXIX~
~ Subterranean Junket ~
~Eyes O’ Wonder/Line of Sight~

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WordWulf
Tom Sterner lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado with wife Kathy. He has been published in numerous magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake. His interne...(more)