His words, despite his own struggle to dress himself in them, were words of wisdom. Words compelling any adolescent (such as I was) to lift their ear in the same manner one might find the sun raising the flower’s. They were words wrapped in simplicity, disguised only for the heart of a wise man- aContinue reading “Ever Ever Everett and the Slightly Bearded Man’s Enlightenment”
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Panoramic Panic
There are twelve steps for you to take. Twelve. My exact age that night baby panic pushed curse words from momma’s mouth.And from her hand, a coiled cord uncurled toward the telephone. It rubbed against the kitchen doorway, conducting a symphony of emotional landscape: a Panoramic Panic. Twelve. The number of miles you rodeblacked out from alcoholContinue reading “Panoramic Panic”
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