by Human Nature Notes | Jan 6, 2021 | Learning, Nature
So much the same and so much changed in this strange time. Things I’ve been meaning to do to read to watch to make to write I can do them now. I could and I should. Daylight lengthens, clouds clear, leaves unfold. Look at my phone! Day after...
by Human Nature Notes | Nov 10, 2020 | Stories
I wrote the first draft when I was in a black depression. I can’t remember whether it was about me and another person, or about two parts of myself. You and I no other face no song of bird no green no breathing. Bones are fleshless blood is dust the flow has stopped....
by Human Nature Notes | Nov 10, 2020 | Stories
My older daughter was delivered after hours and hours of trying to be born! I wrote this a long time afterwards and it was satisfying to use a controlled form to enclose a scary experience over which I’d had no control. The sun gleams as dull as the moon through...
by Human Nature Notes | Nov 10, 2020 | Stories
I taught basic skills in a men’s prison, Category C. The gates and locks took a bit of getting used to, but I liked the people I met and I had a different idea of prisoners by the time I left. I give my tally in and take my keys exchange some pleasantries, unlock and...
by Human Nature Notes | Nov 10, 2020 | People
I was driving through town, stopped at a pedestrian crossing and saw this girl. A girl with amazing hair. Reddish-blonde, long, with a fringe. The first few inches flat on her head, with a dead-straight central parting, and the rest of it crimped, fluffed out and...
