Tag: ocean

• February 3, 2021

  Whale Song Dream

  

  At night, while the washing machine spins our soiled clothes, it moans like a haunted whale song. Notes echo through the dark rooms, tempting us to a depth we’ve never met before. Slipping away beneath the waves of sleep, the songs carry us until we’re resting on the backs of giants hidden at the bottom…
• May 29, 2019

  Salt

  Saoirse could smell the ocean salt clinging to his skin. She could still see the sunlight reflecting in his hazel eyes. This was where Julian belonged. It hadn’t been good enough. He had the ocean in his soul but around here the dark corners echoed of empty promises far louder. She begged him. He answered…
• October 9, 2018

  Colossus

  Write Photo 10/4 Rocks and the ankles of fragile women; obstacles the ocean must break. These waves scream on approach, all foam and gnashing jaws. Amber eyes aglow against purple skies, beset concrete brows and permanent growls. No, the ocean sees, intimidation must be quelled. It has no choice but to settle and whittle. Slowly…
• February 10, 2018

  Two Bucks at Goodwill

  “Life’s absurd isn’t it?” Charlie pushed his thick black framed glasses back onto the bridge of his nose before chugging the last of the whiskey. Greta never drank, she figured liquor wasn’t needed to enhance the crushing silences she felt. She never thought either of them needed liquor or drugs to take them over the…