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 …
Author Archives: Ronald E. Shields
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 …
Mystery Cave
Page 2, Notebook #11 Oh Spring!The grass pasture is exactly emerald green,inviting as a field of apple red poppies. The …
Missing People, Strange Tracks
There is confusion,even after the phone callI can only see you alive.She said death was immediate,and you are a box …
Found in Mystery Cave State Park
WeatherToday the sun is a wish hidden by clouds.Trees shake like sawgrass in the wind.Rain is a fine net over …
Poetry on the run 