The Poems of David Garlick
I love to run, wind in my ears. Then I ran across the black way. Then there was nothing! Then there was nothing. Then a blaze of light; My head hurts. I lay still thinking. Even that hurt! I lay still in the deep place. I hurt, I called but no sound happened. […]
If you listen carefully, You’ll hear the cold sand whispering – with gritty words that itch the ears of men who wonder why – leaders, who with feet of clay, never think to seek the Sand, to ask why hates and prejudice survive the screaming years. Tales as old as desert time, written in […]
I look at our baby and in that moment – I understand not only how much my parents love me but that once again, life has given me a new kind of love to share. Books spill words of mother’s love, rightly so, for mothers are our genesis. They bear and care for us, […]
As I lie, unsleeping or walk my dog, Shadow, alone, through woods or other tranquil places, my mind churns with thoughts and scenes of long ago or as a break in an opaque fog; to understand that which was once unfathomable. The thoughts, a concrete mix of words and ideas, rumble and scratch, polishing, […]