the only misfortune

'The only truly great misfortune is to have never been born.'  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis in The Posthumous Memoir of Bras Cubas

from the mind's eye

Lilies

"Every bird in the forest has its own voice."  Mestre Joao Grande

Passion

like a morning rain

Wyoming moment

hovering

"There is no numbing pain, no reeling
vision, no taste of blood, no feeling
of loneliness hovering like death in humid air."
Walter Dean Myers
"Bill Cash, 30"
Here in Harlem