and is gone by Michael Dickes
The dust comes up from the road with the wind to blow all hell around the deck. Shadows call names. Branches sway and sing above the river. Finches dash from tree to house to shrub. The garden lattice, cracked and splintered, bends in the breeze. El Nino delivers this strange weather. Where it may be sunny and mild, let an hour pass and all of a whimper, dark clouds drift over the mountain tops to blanket the valley in an orange grey blackness. The air turns cool and moist before the windows are closed. With the smell, rain comes, slowly at first. Thunder rolls up and over the canyon walls like waves of sound upon the rocks. You look for lightening, but there is none. Then as fast as it began it all stops, starts again, drizzles out and is gone. The sun rips the clouds open and sends their remains scattering to the east. The moisture sticks to your skin. The grass smells like a new day. The house is still empty.
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Michael Dickes (pron. Dix)
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Writer / Composer
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Currently lives in the Cascade Mountains of North Central, WA
- Recently featured on the soundtrack for “Henry Poole Is Here” starring Luke Wilson and George Lopez
In his 40 some odd years, Michael Dickes has traveled the world as a songwriter and musician, sold around 30,000 CDs mostly off of the stage, been a radio newsman and music DJ, worked in a lumbermill, owned his own business and moved 143 thousand times. Along the way, he has always had a passion for words and how they are strung together in a precise fashion so as to move inside a heart or bend a mind.
In recent times he has gone from owning a home, driving nice cars and living a somewhat typical American life to choosing to own very little and longing to write.
That is why he’s here. So, he writes.
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