Vol : Writing

TIME IS DEAD

TIME IS DEAD

A Poem by Vol


Sometimes I think there is no past or future, just this point we call “Now.” But if that is so, where did all these ..
ECHOS

ECHOS

A Poem by Vol


We left the door open when we went to bed. I turned to the dog-ear where we left off and read to us until I couldn't any more, put t..
Why?

Why?

A Story by Vol


I asked why the first word of every line is capitalized in poetry? These are the answers:I find the opposite to be true. The first word of a line is o..
MOVE ALONG, PLEASE

MOVE ALONG, PLEASE

A Poem by Vol


The dawn was muted by heavy clouds, so it took about three hours to crawl over the ridge, a slow morning for sure. ..
WAIT A MINUTE

WAIT A MINUTE

A Poem by Vol


Wait a Minute So, I was thinking, probably my first mistake, about one of those stupid questions that keep popping up, but which do nothi..
GETTING OFF

GETTING OFF

A Story by Vol


GETTING OFFIYou’d think that by the time you get to be fifty-four, you would know some of the basic elements of your own makeup. It’s not ..
LILITH

LILITH

A Poem by Vol


LILITH Her hands flicker like doves over the table; one lights on his arm. He turns. She opens to him, and he goes in. She sm..
NOTCHES

NOTCHES

A Poem by Vol


I used to burn through the summer with hot feet and never stopped. Everything I did notched creation into the butt of my gun, whether ..
NOT GENTLE

NOT GENTLE

A Poem by Vol


We went for a drive down a lonely dirt road that had lost its gravel. We parkedbeside a dying barn where buzzards roost deep i..
NOT A CLUE

NOT A CLUE

A Poem by Vol


Sometimes I wonder what is the shape of absolute nothing, absolute zero? Did God have to first create a vast amount of it so he..