The Millennial Pedestrian

“I stand before a canyon / lit gaudily by setting sun …”

“Shortly after we set off / we already want to know.”

“After Sunday’s bread and wine, / another sacrament -”

“It has been described too often by too many…”

“Our dreams have grown / more lifelike than our lives…”

“Late last night / the flames burned through the roof …”

“It means something different now.”

“Rivers swell, contract, meander/into places where we’ve put /a house or farm or town.”

“I see them trudge across the bridge above the tracks …”

The Painter     Inspired by the late Eugene “Bud” Leake From his folding chair out by the barn the painter scans the landscape, countryside he’s known for forty years or more. Beyond a nearby wall of tumbled stone the fields raise stubbled flanks up to the county road. A line of trees […]