Author: Jef Murray

Exploring Elysium

“Goodnight…” “Goodnight.” “Don’t go to sleep….” “I won’t.” This is the way my brother and I ended each day. Steve was my junior by three years, and the long shadows of evening always filled him with thoughts of phantoms floating...

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Roaming Through Rohan

Where now the horse and the rider? where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk and the bright hair flowing? Where is the hand on the harp-string, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the...

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Roses

The shovel rings as I thrust it into the ground. “Great”, I think, “another *%$@!! tree root.” I stop for a moment and rest against the spade. Its handle has become soft with age; the lace tracery of the ash tree’s rings still...

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He Came to Bring Us Joy

“He came to bring us joy.” The thought bounds unbidden into my brain on this chilly February morning. A roseate dawn glimmers above the Emory campus as I hike the hill to the library. Bare trees stand silent in the space between...

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