Author – Speaker
It looked like an old piece of paper, stuck to the bottom of the cardboard box in the attic. The kind of trash that most people wouldn’t even give a second look to. At the end of the cleaning day. When there was such an abundance of meaningless old papers that would have to journey… Continue reading When Words Meant Too Much
It is a most pleasurable and painful need of His image. To speak, to sing, to form, to make. Our hands were sculpted to press a moldless form into beauty. Our eyes were crafted to dream color into a dark grey vision. Our lips were shaped to taste the ever-sweeter sensations that we could conceive.… Continue reading Only One Can Survive
On the road to nowhere. Uncertain destination inspires quiet to think. Watching the horizon speed by just beyond the window. Enjoying the beauty of that world beyond and left behind. Eyes following the shoreline as far as you can see in both directions. Remembering vastly different beaches, sand and rocks, waves and seaweed. On the… Continue reading On the Road to Nowhere
Sweet song of heaven calls from above Weighting freighting the glorious clouds Soaring out pouring out she tastes the sky Ambitiously swallowed that deep song of love Clouds remain still unmoved untouched Majestic impressionistic Mighty Fortress Proudly loudly the meter resounds Vexed soil and breath reach out to clutch Swooping wind on the in-between Descending… Continue reading Heaven’s Sickening Seed
Sometimes she lost her mind. Rinsing, chopping. Gathering stirring. What did all of it mean. Emotions that should not be making her sick with every cut slice chop. Her knife pieced the soft flesh of a zucchini, marring the vibrant green skin to show its unimpressive white insides. Vegetable triangles scatted in the wake of… Continue reading Chopped Up
Cindy Koch 