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The Hairst Licht ower Lomond
The hairst licht fa's saft ower Lomond's braes,An gowden mist lies low upon the loch;The hills stand still, as gin the warld drew breath,While autumn lays its licht on stane an heather.https://inkandrain.home.blog/2026/10/17/the-hairst-licht-ower-lomond/
The Bargain
I know how youth spends freely what it owns,How time makes dust of crowns and ancient stones.So I would take this evening as it comes,And ask no promise from the flesh and bones.
Monday Morning Blues
Monday slips beneath the door like smoke,already dressed, already far too pleased.It knows I have a weakness for the bold—which is precisely why I distrust it. The shower leaves a silver heat on skin;I linger where the mirror catches light.The morning watches with a knowing face.I smile. Let it wonder what I’m thinking. My coffee waits, dark-eyed and overdressed,its warmth inviting more than caffeine.I take one slow sip and let it burn.If Monday wants attention, it can ask. Outside, […]https://inkandrain.home.blog/2026/10/05/monday-morning-blues-2/
Silk and Fire
The silk moves slowly, listening to my skin,and your hand follows where it leaves a trace.Not quite a touch at first—the ghost of one,a warmth suspended just above my waist. I turn toward you and feel your fingers pause,as though restraint itself were something felt.Then one light touch travels down my shoulder,and every nerve remembers how to listen. The fabric slips beneath your patient hand.You gather it, then let it fall again,your fingertips lingering at my back,where breath has made […]
Monday
Monday slips beneath my doorin silk and morning light.I leave the coffee waitingand let the day undress me—like satin poured over warm skin.
The Waiting Flame
The night leans near my door,and the rain is whispering there;the curtains breathe, the lamplight wanes,and something moves upon the air—not wind, not rain, but something morethan either, and less than a name. The room has grown strangely still;the clock is far away.The wine is warm, the window dark,the last pale edges of the dayhave fallen from the sill;and my heart, that would have slept,has waked beneath its quiet keeping. O beautiful night,how softly thou dost enter—not as a storm, […]
Autumn by the Lomond
The Lomond gleams ‘neath autumn’s sky,Wi’ amber licht driftin’ by.The birks wear gowd alang the brae—A fiery cloak for shorten’d day.https://inkandrain.home.blog/2026/09/26/autumn-by-the-lomond/
The Intelligence of Love
He knew the sound beneath a sound—the latch before the door was turned,my footfall altered on the ground,the kettle's hush, the lamp that burned. He read the weather through the glass,the gull's low angle, sheep's unrest;one lifted ear would let him passfrom dreaming into watchfulness. I gave him fields, and winter walks,my hands through burr and rain-wet fur,the little language made of looks,of gesture, whistle, touch, and stir. He gave me something harder won:his fierce attention, […]https://inkandrain.home.blog/2026/09/21/the-intelligence-of-love/
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Sand Castle
Damned be anything that rises up out of this sand, where the sea licks and leaves its froth, the waves like fingers in their ceaseless clawing, betrayed by the white whisper of the surf, that eternal purging to loosen the smallest grains in relentless toil, until all the walls crumble and the tower sways, then falls like a slithering serpent that slides wounded and torn beneath the emerald sea.
October 26, 1988
Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Part of the continuing Respectful American series, a selection of writings from my travel journals from Central America in 1988
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This Moment – Lost
a thought of beauty strikes me
and I must express it so
but as I reach to grasp it
it flutters away,
a moth,
a feather,
a small white bird
startled by the motion
of my wanting.
my hand closes
around nothing,
void,
and I stand there
foolish with longing,
as if the air itself
had promised me a gift
then taken it back.
and I weep
for the passing moment.
it will never come again.
not in that light,
not with that breath,
not with the same small door
opened briefly
between the soul
and the world.
May 8, 1987 (age 19) (Expanded and updated June 2026)
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