Photo: Neil D. MacLean (www.sixfivephotography.com) I wrote this one down back on 01.05.05 according to my notebook. __________________________________________________________ The teenaged boy was straightening his dress pants with his palms, surveying them stretched, around 38 inches, across the bed. His little brother, about ten, wondered out loud what his big brother was up to. The teenager [...]
Category: daydreams
Homesick
“Some days I sit like a child/who’s afraid of ghosts in the night/I know ain’t nothin’ out there/I’m still afraid to turn off the lights…” --Amos Lee (Arms of a Woman) “Only a dreamer knows what it’s like to be homesick for a place s/he’s never been.” --a postcard in Mrs. Paterson’s classroom [...]
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Daydream Sequence #1
Freed Slaves in Richmond, VA 1865 Paul McWhorter http://www.old-photos.blogspot.com The ghosts, a friend warned me, would visit. She advised me to keep pens available, to light white candles. I already had a few pens and mackin’ lights—well, I lit candles but they weren’t necessarily white. I was almost eager to meet them when I first moved in. [...]
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