Poem: Hospital Garden At the 13th Hour & Commentary

Hospital Garden At The 13th Hour As the sun strikes the bell tower, until you see the ice in the central fountain, they almost make you think its Spring, those berries that look like white buds in their net of brown whippet branches. –Red Haircrow, 20 December 2011 Augustes Viktoria Klinikum, Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany, my […]

Dreams of Death

A vision or dream of death, yours or someone else’s, isn’t always representative of that eventuality. Just as in Tarot, drawing the card of death doesn’t necessarily mean death is impending. Falling from a high point to what must be death on impact is a common recurrent theme expressed to therapists or others. Sometimes dreams […]

Staying Positive: Words of Encouragement For All

Staying positive. Negativity hurts, no matter where it comes from. Even if you have a perfectly good reason to be negative, even if your negativity is someone or something else’s “fault” it still is negativity and it still has the power to cut you down. Staying positive means not only keeping yourself positive, but also […]

To M.M.H. (A Memorial Poem) by Red Haircrow

It’s always hard to lose a close friend. Someone you genuinely liked because they were a funny, interesting and intelligent person, especially who’d endured decades of a disease slowly killing them piece by piece, yet always had a quip if they could speak, or a special look in their eyes even when they couldn’t. A […]