Duo Dickinson

A Sugar Maple Tree’s Mortality (And Our Own)

One-Worded Prayers of “Sorry”, “Thanks”, and “Please”.

There Were Monsters Outside of Our Houses so We Invented a God to Keep Them at Bay.

The Whirlwind of Uncertainty Made for an Abundance of Judgments

Living Amid the Ambiguity of Faith and Facts, Safety and Fear

Just As We Cannot Determine Our Outcomes, We Cannot Avoid Our Motivations

The Draft Puts Our Shallow Desire to Judge in Full Celebration.

Tears Erupted to Water Those Memories, Now as Fresh as When They Were Made.

Humans Try, Beyond All Understanding, To Understand, To Project, To Justify, To Prove.

The World Wanted Her to Change, So She Left It.

We Cannot Have the Parents We Want; We Have the Parents We Are Given.

“A Rapid — Footless Guest — / To Offer Whom a Chair / Were as Impossible as Hand / A Sofa to the Air —”