A fevered lip burns with a passion and pepper of the moment. After a thought, it bites itself with teeth coated like the candy-stripers who ply their infectious good cheer and reticent good wishes before the imprisoned souls in torments unknown. A pinch — that’s all — and then again the swirling carts go flying …
Author Archives: dr_orr
Make of It What You Will
Laughing at the paradigm of elephants, my throbbing kneecaps speak of the pain and suffering of the great angels we have heard on high. No more time for this sacred pretence of dreams, the latter-day thrombosis is felled with two strokes of the upside-down cake. Pelicans on patrol keep watch on a quiet city, though …
A Difficult Spot
As if the appliances didn’t demand more and more stories though I’m sure they’ve heard them all a dozen times or more, the toaster pops out a request for a story about Lady Lydia. “Please!” he says, “a Lady Lydia story?” But there’s always something else in the way. Today it was a pogo-stick and …
A new hope
Once again taking up pen to virtual paper, agonizing over the first scratches against the unforgiving blankness of the truest messenger of God, we prepare anew to launch into the black seas this small craft. Too little for true sailing, yet disdaining to hug the shoreline, we take bearings a last moment, and then set …