orange elephants lie in wait
You’ll be here soon enough between bottled stress and un-numbing fealty. I will clasp your tremens in my hands on frozen bench or out a fetid alley.
I am the cricket’s rasp, the lapping of waves, a song not quite heard. I will whisper into your badmouth and you will never quite make out my words.
Roger Kenyon was North America’s first lay canon lawyer and associate director at the Archdiocese of Seattle. He was involved in tech (author of Macintosh Introductory Programming, Mainstay) before teaching (author of ThinkLink: a learner-active program, Riverwood). Roger lives near Toronto and offers free critical thinking and character development courses online.
“When not writing, I’m riding—eBike, motorbike, and a mow cart that catches air down the hills. One day I’ll have Goldies again.”
