All posts by L Dewender

Editor-in chief of Tales from the Lake blog, member of Lake Writers @ AotL, finalist in 2015 The Big Brick Review first annual Essay contest. Published in 1989 American Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, and self-published in A First Cousins Presentation of Selected Poetry: A Timeclock, The Train, and a River So Blue -1980.
Poetry

Airborne

Airborne

for Gary

L. Dewender

Life on a page,

Without flesh—

Paper in the wind

The meat and marrow

of a man

The right word

For a man

Aloft and soaring

Whole sentences rain down

Upon faces that gaze

What wind?

What tense?

It was all silver glints

In sunbaked skies

It was shimmers and rolls

And fire in the belly

It was wise.

It is stilted and bereft

Looking for the word

For a man

Afloat

On course

And missed.

Such heart for it all

He captured and caught

Tamed on a page

With words

Or without

Glossy or matte

A moment in life

For eyes and hearts

For all time

Flying Dutchman of the sky

With your visceral lens

Now gone past the borders

And the great melding place

You leave us your colors

In the warm of this space

Where we, in our grief

Remember your grace

Short Story

For Lack of a Hat Part II

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Lady takes a cursory look around the room; even without direct eye contact she can see the wrinkled faces and craning necks over the high back chairs, stretching toward her… She smiles apprehensively and backs away. She had no intention of making a spectacle of herself.  She doesn’t know where that came from. But it did.  She was compelled. It must have been the Muzak and the waiting. Continue reading For Lack of a Hat Part II →