Bill Pearse

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• Song for Lily and Charlotte

  By Bill Pearse on June 23, 2021 • ( 6 )

  

  There is no time like the present but no present like ice cream on a summer afternoon with you beside me in the car and you in the back seat well before the days of work life and strife, when… Read More ›

• What will and will not last

  By Bill Pearse on June 22, 2021 • ( 6 )

  

  Well the dog is on her last leg, my mom, her last refrigerator. That elderly couple I climbed with in the Alps: the tread is shot on their boots but what’s the sense in getting another pair, they laughed. Me,… Read More ›

• Desert island selection

  By Bill Pearse on June 21, 2021 • ( 17 )

  

  It was nearly impossible to love our house as much as it needed to be loved. I’d sit in the backyard and pretend I was at a resort the way the tall trees looked, the angle of the moon coming… Read More ›

• Palace of the brine

  By Bill Pearse on June 20, 2021 • ( 12 )

  

  I was wet from the ocean spray when I woke, with eagles up above. The tide looked low and the beach opened up. Fallen trees off the bluffs made it feel like we were at the edge of the world.

• Field notes from the Pacific Coast

  By Bill Pearse on June 19, 2021 • ( 12 )

  

  A few years ago I did a 30-day challenge to write 50K words, inspired by an outing to the Washington coast and in part, the singer Chris Cornell’s tragic death. Cornell sang for the band Soundgarden, one of the primary… Read More ›

• Look out the window

  By Bill Pearse on June 18, 2021 • ( 15 )

  

  I’m not really here right now, but I wanted to be so I could maintain a 30-day streak and I’m getting close. Sharing an interview I did in 2017 with one of the writers I follow who’s taught me some… Read More ›

• The human race is run

  By Bill Pearse on June 17, 2021 • ( 12 )

  

  Outside the hose is coiled, the drain rock undisturbed, the lamb’s ear grown an inch overnight. It’s the time of day all the conference rooms are taken by the clatter of birds kicking up sparks. Dew on the grass turning… Read More ›

• Two sides of the same coin

  By Bill Pearse on June 16, 2021 • ( 12 )

  

  He could be like a murder victim on his side, the way he sleeps. The arms flailing, the legs cocked weird. Like a deer on the side of the highway. The dead are like that, caught in a sudden peace…. Read More ›

• A roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour

  By Bill Pearse on June 15, 2021 • ( 8 )

  

  It is a sleepy Sunday with the cat in the window, the clock ticking and the rain. Me smacking my lips, tonguing my teeth as a lion might a sinew. House cats are no different than their counterparts in the… Read More ›

• Magna come loudly, Bill

  By Bill Pearse on June 14, 2021 • ( 23 )

  

  I guess the window on William closed a long time ago, I’ve just gone by Bill. Been called Billy, but only to distinguish myself from the other Bills. A littler Bill, that Billy: a smaller version of his dad. Though… Read More ›

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