Hesitant Love

This hesitant love Beating in perfect time With the rumbling fear Threatening my soul Finding me in shadow Pin point, razor sharp So much like friends But with an attitude Born of conscious time A closeness by default Shoved into a semblance Of what we called love Nothing else being near But the eyes see … Continue reading Hesitant Love

Four For Six

“I thought we’d never come back from that one!” George told Mabel, who told Isabelle, who told Raffi, and all four of them breathed a sigh of relief, collapsing onto each other on George’s extra-large couch. They each put down their Wii controllers, sweaty from the hour they had played Ultimate Volleyball in the epic … Continue reading Four For Six

The Nick Nolte Syndrome

“Strange, don’t you think I’m looking older? Something good has happened to me. Change is a stranger you have yet to know.” ~George Michael You know those actors who never seem to age, the ones like Courteney Cox, who is virtually indistinguishable from her initial Friends foray over 20 years ago, or Will Smith, who … Continue reading The Nick Nolte Syndrome