Tag: mist

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 06/07/24

James D. Casey IV

The Monster in the Mist

Hand stamped
the language
is unfamiliar
if you
didn’t live
it, if
you didn’t
hide it
how easy
sleight of hand
how easy
to cover
with smiles
and accomplishments
but the fear
the danger
measured, weighed
now out
in the open
the creature
gets too
confident, arrogant
extremely real
and then
caught whether
or not
you believe it.

©2024 LB Sedlacek All rights reserved.

Sister Sedlacek

LB Sedlacek is an award-winning writer and poet. Her latest poetry book is Unresponsive Sky published by Purple Unicorn Media. Her latest book of short stories is The Renovator & Motor Addiction published by Alien Buddha Press. She has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize both in poetry. Her mystery book, The Glass River, was nominated for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Prize. She also enjoys swimming and reading.

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Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 11/24/21

James D. Casey IV

In The Fog

I envision the dissipated souls
stretched across the bay,
side by side, above and below
to form this heavy mist.
The emanating sounds bring me
scenes of buoys singing in the sway,
tugboats voicing arrivals,
flapping wings sculpted by wind.

Hints of light conjure a purée
of diamond soup being stirred
gently over a pot of steam.
More and more gems rise
to the surface,
shine with a brilliance only
muted fog can enhance.

As the soup stock simmers down,
brightness spreads upward
toward unpeopled park hills,
signaling to sounds they
no longer have to bear the onus
of stage props alone.

©2021 Evie Groch All rights reserved.

Evie Groch

Evie Groch, Ed.D. is a Field Supervisor/Mentor for new administrators in Graduate Schools of Education.  Her opinion pieces, humor, poems, short stories, recipes, word challenges, and other articles have been widely published in the New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Contra Costa Times, The Journal, Games Magazine, and many online venues. Many of her poems are in published anthologies. Her short stories, poems, and memoir pieces have won her recognition and awards. Her travelogues have been published online with Grand Circle Travel. The themes of travel, language, and immigration are special for her.