Today's Little Ditty

Standing on a Dock in the Lake If I can’t see the bottom of the lake, should I jump in? If once a moss-slick snag poked my leg when I...

ASTRONOMY FIELD TRIP Dinosaurs with telescopes explore the sky at night— sliver of moon and shimmering stars. They marvel at t...

OXBLOOD RED Once it was red now no longer the color of ox blood the barn stands gray and bleak in disrepair gaps where boards have sp...

QUIBBLING THEORIES Marks in the desert sand, notations of a passerby. Observers puzzle, quibbling theories, until . . . realization: ...

RIVERS Writing, You swim in a river of words. Word by chosen word, The delta nears. Reading, You stand in the same river twice, Seei...

HAPPINESS IN MOTION Happiness scampers across the roof of my mind leaps to a branch all spunk and play descends gargle-gigg...