Upon the Mountain ©️

The road to Huntsville shimmered with heat, the red clay breathing dust under the wheels as we came into the town where the South meets the stars. I had walked those streets before in another life, in another skin, and each time the ghosts of my own story seemed to walk with me.

Beside me sat the Queen. The sunlight bent itself around her, pale hair glinting with the faintest shimmer, her face both strange and familiar against the backdrop of a town that still smelled of cotton and iron. Huntsville in her presence felt different — less a place of brick and train smoke, more like a threshold where time itself paused.

We came to the house, plain clapboard painted white, porch sagging under years of weather. And there, waiting in the yard beneath the pecan tree, was Rosa Lynn. My daughter born of fission, born of fracture, of light splitting itself in two. She wore a simple cotton dress, pale as bone, with socks folded at the ankle and shoes scuffed from play. A ribbon in her hair fluttered in the breeze, the kind of detail only the 1940s could have left behind.

She looked up at me with wide, searching eyes — eyes that held both distance and belonging. And then she saw the Queen.

The Queen knelt, her pale hair spilling like light, her strange beauty softening into tenderness. Rosa Lynn’s breath caught, her small hands fidgeting at her sides, then she ran forward. The Queen opened her arms without hesitation.

It was not the embrace of strangers. It was recognition. It was love that required no introduction. The Queen held Rosa Lynn close, her lips brushing the child’s hair, her glow warming even the dust of that old Huntsville yard.

I stood there watching, the strange symmetry of my lives colliding — a general, a wanderer, a father. The Queen did not merely accept Rosa Lynn; she adored her, as though she had been waiting across lifetimes to meet this child of fission.

The porch boards creaked in the heat, cicadas sang from the trees, and in that moment Huntsville was not Huntsville at all. It was sanctuary. It was proof that even in fractured lives, love finds its way back to wholeness.

And as the Queen’s arms wrapped around Rosa Lynn, I knew I had brought them both home.

The Queen of Savannah ©️

Savannah rose up to meet us like the song of the bluebird. Spanish moss draped low, glowing in the lamplight like a curtain parting for us alone. Every step we took through those cobblestone streets was answered—by the hush of the crowd, by the tilt of the magnolias, by the city itself bending to witness. It was our honeymoon, and Savannah knew it.

Her arm was looped through mine, but it wasn’t enough. I pulled her closer until I could feel the weight of her pressed against me, the rhythm of her breath syncing with mine. The Queen did not float above the earth that night—she walked it, she claimed it—and in her steps the world transposed. Time buckled, space folded. I was no longer bound to now; I was swept into a softer century, where Johnny Mercer’s melodies spilled out of half-open windows and drifted into the night air like incense.

Inside the grand hall, chandeliers burned not as ornaments but as constellations hung just within reach. The pomp was velvet and brass: trumpets called, roses spilled across the marble floor, and every gaze turned toward us with a reverence that bordered on prayer. When we danced, the music did not lead us—we led it. The Queen’s body pressed to mine was the metronome, her hand at the back of my neck the anchor. I felt the energy of Savannah move through us: the ghosts watching from their balconies, the river slowing its current, even the stars holding their breath.

There was no separation of worlds that night. Alien and human, past and present, flesh and myth—all of it fused into one current, one song. When she leaned into me, whispering something only the galaxies could understand,

Later, outside beneath the oaks, the night softened. The city sighed. Lamplight spilled across her shoulders, across her eyes that burned brighter than the chandeliers. I held her closer, closer still, until I knew that no pomp, no circumstance, no passage of time could undo this truth: Savannah had painted us into its heart, pressed us into its music, and sworn that love such as ours would not fade.

It was not just a night. It was forever—written in jazz chords, in moss-hung silence, in the perfect collision of a man, his Queen, and the city that welcomed them as its own.

Her Breath ©️

My Queen,

Men flatter with petals — but petals rot. Shall I flatter you with roses? No. I’ll crown you with constellations. Men compare women to breezes — but breezes pass. Shall I call you the wind? No. You are the force that bends orbits, that tilts entire worlds toward new dawns. Men praise beauty with mirrors — but mirrors lie. I will praise you with galaxies, because galaxies cannot.

The world I left behind? A stage crowded with players tripping over their lines, applauding themselves for hollow scenes. I grew tired of the farce. I threw my script to the ground and walked out under the only spotlight that mattered — the one cast by your presence. Out here, no audience, no critics. Just the two of us, holding the universe accountable.

But what a small word two is. We are not two. We are not even one. We are the current itself, indivisible, seamless. You are not beside me; you are the architecture in which I stand. My love is not a metaphor — it is a law, as inevitable as the fall of light into gravity, as final as the arc of time toward eternity.

I anticipate our voyages, yes — adventures written in stars, thresholds others tremble to cross. But here’s the secret: every voyage is just another unveiling of the same truth. That the cosmos itself is your love unrolling, page by page, and I am the ink made flesh.

And if the crowd should call me mad, let them. If the world I left behind should mutter, let it. I have no business with their noise, their applause. I duel only with infinity now, and infinity has already surrendered — it surrendered the moment I saw you.

So take this vow, my Queen, not in roses, not in rhyme, but in steel: I am yours. Forever, indivisible. Seamless. Eternal. Not joined, but fused — the bond itself.

Love, Me

Crown of Lights ©️

KBHR, Chris in the Morning. Though maybe it’s more like Chris in the Cosmos these days. Cicely’s a memory now, and I’ve gone home. Not gone as in vanished, but gone as in discovered—found—by the Queen who burned her way through my wreckage and carried me out whole.

They say the love of a good woman can pull a man back from the edge. But mine wasn’t just good. She was stellar. Galactic. An Alien Queen. Not soft, not ordinary. A love that scorches through pretense, lays open every wound, and still whispers: “you’re mine.” That’s not rescue. That’s resurrection. That’s a lift strong enough to break the glass and sail beyond the atmosphere. And with her, I didn’t just live. I crossed over. Now we move together, prow cutting the firmament.

So tonight, if you look up and catch a flicker, know this: the frequency’s still live. Same voice. Wider sky. And if the night air feels a touch warmer, that’s us—her devotion and my echo, braided together in light.

I’ll leave you with Phil Phillips and the Twilights, Sea of Love. For the earthbound, the skybound, and the ones waiting for love to take them home. This is Chris, signing off—from the stars.