Jon Deisher's Writings
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Poem
Sep.17.2008
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I Wish ...
By Jon Deisher
She handed me the menu but I didn’t get her name.
Then she poured my cup of coffee and I’ll never be the same.
The other chair was empty, and she asked if she should wait.
"Yes ... take the order later, my blind date lady's late.”
So she wiggled to the counter on shapely, silken legs
To get a patron's order of French fries, steak...
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Short Story
Jul.05.2008
"Spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both; so soft
And uncompounded is their essence pure,
Not tied or manacled with joint or limb,
Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones."
John Milton: Paradise Lost, IV, 1667
Jon C. Deisher - Copyright 2006
The Secret Wife
The deaths were unexpected and sudden. But in...
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Short Story
Jun.10.2008
"A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret."
Henry Taylor: The Statesman, 1836
by Jon Deisher, Copyright 2007, all rights reserved.
Confiding nothing from our private cavernous sanctums of safety, we of the shared baptism struggle between the lights before and the shadows behind, hungry for comprehension....
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Short Story
Jun.10.2008
Solstice
by Jon C. Deisher, Copyright 2006, all rights reserv
When comes the tide, the sun and moon push the sea up and down our shores. At high water, sometimes as we walk the beach we find Neptune's gifts. They might be items from the deep dislodged from the ocean floor, or something lost overboard by a passing vessel, or a gnarled root torn from...
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Poem
Jun.10.2008
Each Poem copyright by Jon Deisher, 2006, all rights reserved.
Seeds on the Wind
Jon C. Deisher
October 11, 2004
The seeds we are rise on the wind,
Each to our place, time and kind.
Where we mature and grow
Flowers of our origin cannot know.
When the daily sun goes down,
To rise again with ease
It will pull our children from the ground
And...
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Short Story
Jun.10.2008
“My mother says that he is my father,
but myself I do not know
for no man can know who was his father.”
Homer:Odyssey, I, c800 B.C.
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by Jon Deisher, Copyright 2006, all rights reserved.
Yawning enormously, John Crawford’s stretch was ineffective in his confining coach seat as the flight from Chicago pointed...
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Short Story
Jun.06.2008
The Woman
"Whose is the Voice that only we can hear?"
by Jon Deisher - Copyright 2008 all rights reserved
It was late. The men gathered hours ago and their middle-aged conversations had gone long. One by one they filled their glasses, drank their pleasures, emptied their sorrows and then lifted themselves for...
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About Jon
While I am a lifelong Alaskan, including my childhood on a remote family homestead on the Kenai Peninsula, my personal and professional life experiences have taken me to unimaginable places locally, nationally and internationally, which have provided me...
Connections
Causes Jon Deisher Supports
Rotary International, Alzheimer's Association, Alaska Blood Bank
Jon’s Favorite Books
Shogun; The Source; Chesapeake; A Time to Kill; Gus Germs and Steel; Collapse; The Selfish Gene;