Photo by Anna Kukhareva on Unsplash              Cleaning the Big House   Norfolk, England, 2030   It was the English woman Veronica Berridge who let the place go — her spirit vanishing maybe eight years back I imagine into one of these portraits in the attic room perhaps this one…

        Enviousness   You’ve fought this for so long but comes the time you understand you are second rate no more that brightness with which you shone now worn thin and opaque as milk or rather—how it goes—perhaps it never glowed so brightly that boldness with which you addressed the world has paled…