Trackside
Down along the tracks, where perception is right or wrong-sided,the world is made of lines so thin they could be …
Author Archives: Ronald E. Shields
Three Thoughts from Mystery Cave
AgreeingReality, like ocean waves,depends on factors both deep and shallow,but mostly upon sufficient amplitude,there must be enough “there” to be …
Mystery Cave
ChaosIf I had been a sailor, stranded, night after night on the open water,with nothing between me and the emptiness …
Closing Time at the Museum
Today was a wish for escape fromhalf-baked promises and manufactured hopes,release from the dark swan of ambition,the devices we employ …
Waking Up
First light, the end of sleep and dreams.As the music of the day plays in my head,I begin the usual …
Thoughts From Mystery Cave
Reading WittgensteinI think what he means to say is each thing speaks for itself,and can be known by its history, …
Horsepower
What dim frontiers, I can barely dream of them, yet,they are in my mind,they are my mind, the way a …
Looking for Love in Mystery Cave
A Theology of Love It is so much easier to think of the quicksilver of our lives,to cherish what we …
Notes From Mystery Cave
“I know there is something larger than the memory of a dispossessed people. We have seen it.” from “Grace”, by …
Dinner With My Wife
We have done what we wanted,chased our dreams, broken new trail, cookedover an open fire. We have our lists of …
Poetry on the run 