Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.