Tag Archives: Oregon

Light on Thorns

Posted on May 2, 2013 by stephenarcher

I haven’t been writ­ing. I haven’t been check­ing in with myself. I haven’t been drink­ing in the life my body is mov­ing through. I have been rais­ing my son. I have been lov­ing my wife. I have been doing my … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Saturday Morning Shows Up

Posted on July 27, 2012 by stephenarcher

I am lis­ten­ing to old new music and it is end­less in me It is Sat­ur­day and we are 200 miles from what mat­ters And we are sleepy and you are like you were the first time I saw you. You … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Five or Four

Posted on July 12, 2012 by stephenarcher

This is a pic­ture of a leaf of two of five rec­tan­gles of four of yel­low of a line of the side of a build­ing of a crack of a side­walk of right angles of a game or some­one else’s … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Where The Truth Is

Posted on June 13, 2012 by stephenarcher

When I lie, it is auto­matic. I don’t think about it – although it is com­ing straight from my brain. My mouth opens and out it comes and I then have the chore of liv­ing with it, embell­ish­ing it (you thought the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The Sky Ran Through Me

Posted on June 11, 2012 by stephenarcher

The sky ran through me: It did and I didn’t even know it. It did and it felt like the first orgasm I remem­ber and it was that, in sky form. It did and I wouldn’t make this up, you … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Church

Posted on June 7, 2012 by stephenarcher

There was a preacher in my South­ern Bap­tist Church who, on occa­sion, would men­tion a church-goer who had not given enough money. He called me sev­eral years ago, at the request of a con­cerned cit­i­zen who thought I left the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Unlikely

Posted on May 21, 2012 by stephenarcher

Even against the back­drop of the world, life, you, I hold my own. I never knew that before.

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No Beginning and No Ending

Posted on April 22, 2012 by stephenarcher

I am going to try to relate this to you in a way that does not sound con­trived. It’s impos­si­ble. It is con­trived. Con­trived means that it was obvi­ously planned. This, what I am telling you about, was, and yet … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Landscape Photographer

Posted on April 18, 2012 by stephenarcher

Tonight I took an old woman back to the oper­at­ing room because she had a bowel obstruc­tion. Two things here: One: we are built like donuts and our donut hole does not tol­er­ate a twist. Two: she had been to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Smoke and Mirrors

Posted on April 14, 2012 by stephenarcher

What I think I know is smoke Mir­rors are a luxury.

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