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A PICTURE & SOME WORDS
A collection of words with an image...


Edges
My nephew, a photographer, got me thinking about edges. There are lots of kinds of edges. A frame forms an edge around a photograph or...

swbutcher
Oct 29, 20233 min read


Graffiti Tree
Note. This work of fiction depicts violence any misogyny which may be disturbing He’s bummed when the girls leave, wrapping their towels...

swbutcher
Aug 23, 202310 min read


Three-Fingered Willy
Willy comes in through the back door, drops his barn coat on the bench, kicks off his mud-covered boots, and pads sock-footed to the...

swbutcher
Jan 8, 202321 min read


Hellcat
I walk along a dirt road near a summer cottage we are renting on Block Island. Morning dew sits on the grasses of the field beside me as...

swbutcher
Jul 15, 20223 min read


Life is Good (another attempt at fiction)
He walks down Boylston Street. It is early evening, the sidewalk is wet, though for the moment the cold rain has abated. Passing cars...

swbutcher
Dec 29, 20206 min read


Camero on Tremont - (an attempt at fiction)
(Photo credit - Tampa Bay Times) Craig’s List Missed Connections I heard you coming a mile away. Tremont Street in Hingham. Def Leppard...

swbutcher
Jul 26, 20205 min read


Christopher: Why I PMC
“Gents: This year I propose some cathartic suffering.” So started Ed’s email in 2011 suggesting that in honor of Christopher, his five...

swbutcher
Feb 12, 20204 min read


Cottage
A bracing gale blows spindrift across the bay: the tops of whitecaps blown into lines of foam perpendicular to the wave’s crest. Grey...

swbutcher
Jan 29, 20202 min read


Walks
I do not attend church. “Walking is my church,” a friend once said and I think it holds for me as well. I seek solace in taking walks,...

swbutcher
Jan 29, 20203 min read
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