Walking on Water

“What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” – The Letter by James chapter 4, verse 14
“I’ll say this, I don’t give a damn about your dreams.” – Bob Dylan, “Thunder on the Mountain”
“Life is short. You’re going to die soon. I’m serious.”
I’m standing on Promontory [...]

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People Watching in Hyde Park (Unused Notes)

At first I think it’s a jellyroll Rotweiler that growls a bit out of breath on the park lawn to my right, but when I turn my head I see that I’m wrong. It’s his mistress, who looks like him.
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If it weren’t for his broad grin and the tiki torch lit next to his [...]

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Ain’t It Beautiful (This Nightly Scream)

“The bear,
The ponderous cinnamon, snarls in his mountain
At summer thunder and sleeps through winter snow.”
- Wallace Stevens, “Notes Towards A Supreme Fiction”
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory… the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you [...]

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