Category: Poetry

Side By Side

I took the photo above at Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland last month. I was struck by how ivy had blanketed the graves, turning them into earthen beds where two souls lie in eternal slumber. I’m not a romantic by a long shot, but the way the ivy came together in the middle, as though this husband and wife had reached out to one another and joined together even in death, brought a tear to my eye.

Paper Flower

My favorite thing about the holiday season is the decor, especially anything with red and gold. You can’t put those two colors together without conjuring Christmas. Think about it. If you wrapped a birthday or wedding gift in red and gold, people would think you were regifting a Christmas present and were too lazy to rewrap it.

Today they put up the decorations in my office building and this caught my eye.