[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

  I am the Fall King  regal, autumnal  covered in the  reds and golds  of sharp-shaped leaves yet crowned with rounded ones that glow in  th...

In a cave I may already be dead, prematurely placed under the  earth to wander in darkness. I’ve had a long held fear of being buried alive,...

This was a fascinating case I saw in the hospital several years ago of a man in his 30’s who had no previous psychiatric diagnosis, but had ...

  The baying of a wounded beast  is simply the peripatetic cries of a child in this largish library.  It  must be in the vaulted main hall a...

A page of prose, just for practice.   Keep on writing, keep on writing, keep on writing.   Ok, that’s cheating but I’ve still got a long way...

  September 2021 These are stressful times and people deal with stress in different ways. For some it is basically intolerable and so deni...

  The hat, the cup, the letter to Mom The iPad, the book, the lack of some- thing to say, can  Anne lead the way? “Bird by Bird” that’s the...

  I am sitting at a table on the second floor of Dublin’s main library.  It is a new building with an architectural flair that is futuristic...

  There was no one to go with me to Russia so I flew alone on an Aeroflot flight at the invitation of a Russian friend who was a  choral con...

  January 8th, 2021 Seeing the shirtless guy with the hairy hat and horns repeatedly today in the media made a memory fall out of my head. W...

  Flags that whip  people into a frenzy and asks them  to sell their birthright  for a pot of power, trying to be trendy, to cane their Abel...

  If I mimic that still small voice like a child following their Father? Like a child wondering why things  have to be the way they are? Lik...

  The ocean can  swallow you whole so you stand  on the sand  so as not to  tempt or test it as your thoughts roll in and out with the waves...

Seeing the unripened fruit of a persimmon tree  on our walk brings back childhood memories of  the Persimmon Festival in Mitchell, Indiana… ...

  If you see what I see will you understand me? It’s the hope of sharing and the scope of caring. It makes me feel free as only a bird can b...

  The city was well behind us as we headed south on a lonely stretch of highway, cornfields stretching out into the distance, the sky a patc...

  Past the decorative niche of daring dreams I wind up the spiraling stairs, spent in my soul. Somewhere above sits a bed of unburdening whe...

  Light filters through the blades of window blinds onto the book I am reading and casts shadows.  A hole allows for a circle of light to en...

So called Anthro-botanist Dr. A. Monk squatting amongst his subjects at the Topiary Park, Columbus, Ohio   -Reuters “It was truly a remarka...

  The cloud is King Biggest thing on the block Floats where it will Sometimes good for a spill Makes me laugh With its massive bit of floof ...