Days Of Fog Before The Hurricane Here In The Mountains

Soco Falls, Part One

A double waterfall located on the Cherokee Nation near the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.

Main waterfall at Soco, on the Cherokee Nation near the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.

“Her deep and damp smile could feed the gardens on the edge of this town.”

— 15-word myth #85: Melissa / @azurestone9

Clingman's Dome: Highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at 6,643 feet above sea level.

Morning at Camp Quietude

Scenes from this year's seasonal home somewhere between the Blue Ridge & the Great Smokies.

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Darkness owned

The months

Time froze

Entangled

With the heartbreak

Of a winter coffin

As I slumped

Into your recliner

Smoking your last

Cigarettes

Hearing your bones

Cry gratitude

For the morphine

I pumped

And remorse

For the lost years

There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair.

~Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

errant leaf skipping

ahead on the gravel path

awaiting uplift