Michael Dechane's profile

I'm about tall enough to duck under the low branches and about done with the longest decade in life and I know about enough to get me in trouble with most things and I'm about putting the best words to bed in the best home I can find them and I'm about good stories and not the rest and about knowing the difference. I'm about the house on days God brings the rain, I'm all in the crannies and the spots untouched since the last thunderhead came, and I'm about you, but not nearly as much as I'm about me, and nowhere near as much as I'm about the man we're all going to see about a life, and I'm always, always just about done, but never quite...
.

I'm interested in the poem, especially the way it turns.

I like to look for arrowheads and other hidden treasure.

Despite my most defiant efforts, I'm interested in the teenagers in my youth group -- how they are, and what's going on in their soul's guts.

The way the muse flips that hair and smiles the way she does -- that gets my attention.

Beer and smoking my grandfather's whittled pipe and guys sitting around a fire planning their own universes -- that pretty much rounds out the list of what I'm willing to let you know about.