the passage of time
— A prose poem captures the sensory landscape of a neighborhood street through wind, racing cars, crunching leaves, gossip, and flickering streetlights.
— A rock on a cliff observes the forest through a day, finding richness in stillness as the world below bustles on.
— A girl watches a mysterious violin player who controls the seasons, inherits her legacy when she dies, and years later discovers her own way to keep the music alive through...
— A girl who missed last year's snow savors an early morning walk with her dog through fresh snowfall, reflecting on how scarcity makes things precious.
— A poem traces the cycle from evening through night to dawn, observing how moonlight and starlight transform the landscape before sunrise returns.
— A soldier on a battlefield, carrying photos from fallen comrades, hesitates to shoot an enemy and is killed, choosing to let another's future persist over his own.
— A little fir tree wishes for grandeur, gets cut down to become a Christmas tree, then longs for his simple forest life when discarded after the holiday.
— A granddaughter interviews her grandfather about his 44-year career at a college, discovering how he embodied the parable of the third stonemason who built cathedrals.
— A clock contemplates its endless mechanical existence, questioning why humans created it to mark time in perpetual, lonely repetition.
— An abstract meditation on the invisible and forgotten, those who lived and died without being seen or remembered by the living.