by Avery White | Apr 19, 2017 | Stories
Spark – spark – spark catch ignite burn the blind into sight This is wide open Life is not ajar Living is wide open landscapes on planets alien to NASA, and even the lenses of Hubble cannot capture the aperture isn’t wide enough to captivate glory LIFE IS NOT AJAR...
by Avery White | Mar 27, 2017 | Challenges
What gives me the right to be sad at a funeral for someone I don’t know? She asked. Compassion, I said. Looking back I can see compassion as the heartfelt feeling of one person for another. It is a soul shouldering a burden. It is an arm around a back. It is an...
by Avery White | Mar 22, 2017 | Challenges
Dribble, dribble, shoot swish, go and let that ball drop I’ll be hearin kicks, snares – goin hard, I won’t stop Concrete, court, and squeak this Triple threat and Tweet this I’ve no use for foul language, don’t need that to be offensive Worlds got plenty need...
by Avery White | Mar 13, 2017 | Challenges
Beyond the old mountain and longest river, across the black divide and endless marsh, And through the winding labyrinth of Demon’s Cave…there is a city. I was 12. My grandfather beckoned that I go. His hard eyes beating down what I remembered. All the talk...
by Avery White | Mar 6, 2017 | Challenges
Pudding, like life, Is generally of one consistency made weird by tapioca, which, like manna, Is probably another way of saying ‘what is it?’ There are tapioca distractions, Lumps in the dirt cake: Chunks of Oreo? Vanilla wafer? No. If it’s...
