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Some of my recent work.
Only Prayer Will Save You from Prison
My home is a capricious dalliance between sanctuary and penitentiary. The invisible, outside world, where one imagines germs and viruses...
Broken Beauty
Something becomes imperative when glass shatters. It demands a response, a snap to attention, a head turn, a dash to the kitchen. Or when...
Prayer Won't Help
You don’t need to be told that everything is about the coronavirus. On the news, social media, standing in line at the grocery store,...
Ocean Pursuit or Symbols of Ruin
I don’t know where I saw it first. Facebook or Instagram or maybe it was in a newspaper, but I saw a boat run aground at Oregon Inlet. I...
On War Reenactments
In the last couple of months, I’ve been to two war reenactments. Being in North Carolina, clearly one of them was a Civil War...
Looking Up
Faithful readers of The Hungry Pelican will have surely noted by now that I haven’t been so faithful about writing. Well, the good news...