night trains

night trains

“That night train’s a mean wine” –John Belushi as Jake Blues We are sitting on a weathered asphalt pad three feet from the railroad track late …

 

We took the band’s tour bus from Petitionville to Jacmel to a seaside village and I experienced first hand the inspiration Nia told me I would experience.

We took the band’s tour bus from Petitionville to Jacmel to a seaside village and I experienced first hand the inspiration Nia told me I would experience.

an email response to an unspoken question… “I appreciate your placing me among the high moments of your life in your story. I appreciate the lack …

 

circle of servants

circle of servants

I shouldn’t have been surprised to see them but I was. Boy Scouts in Haiti. Dressed up in customary khaki and wearing multi-colored scarves. Boy …

 

It was as if the sky was phosphorescent

It was as if the sky was phosphorescent

a man named red pennoyer told a story once in maine at a dinner table in a seaside stone and timber cottage passed down generations …

 

jump, baby!

jump, baby!

Yeah I did it. I got in the skip. I fell in the line. I jumped the rope. Got some shots then got some game. …

 

action heroes

action heroes

I think I long to be a tragic action movie character like jason bourne because even when it ends badly, at least it ends. Waking …

 

my body is tired

my body is tired

My body is tired, but you don’t need to know this. What does it matter about my body. Hers is tired too. This girl in …

 

sometimes it’s just funny

sometimes it’s just funny

She kept at me to take her photograph but I didn’t want to because with the pot on her head I thought she looked ridiculous …

 

she belongs to light even in shadows

she belongs to light even in shadows

“All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled …

 

visiting charlene

visiting charlene

I had wanted to see her. I kept planning to visit. Several times last year I started to buy my ticket to Haiti, rent a …