Ordinary Average Thoughts

Rain this afternoon… So many songs about the rain make it into misery or a minor landmark staining the day Others cloak it in severity— a cloudburst a torrential downpour sheets of rain falling sideways I have attributed rain to the compassion of autumn But it’s only weather, isn’t it? (11 December 2018) I have [...]

As it turned out, I took a polaroid of some trees yesterday afternoon… They are everywhere in my life but we’ve never established that level of intimacy I breathe they breathe next to me There’s always a space between us (9 December 2018) I have books available. Links to more information here.  Or, if you [...]

As the title says, written in response to Gatesville,WA at VALA Arts… The waste products of suburbia are artefacts now of hellfire battlefields in the Pacific theatre wide roads leading farther from home cracks everywhere chemical swirl Ghosts that look like us (8 December 2018) I have books available. Links to more information here.  Or, [...]

What I did at the Xmas party… ‘Kevin, would you like some sauerkraut?’ I used to hear this every holiday— Thanksgiving and Xmas, twice a year except for the occasional Xmas we’d spend in California And every holiday— Thanksgiving and Xmas, twice a year except for the occasional Xmas we’d spend in California I’d decline, [...]