Wishes sometimes have consequences is now available for ordering from your favorite bookstore! I know I waited too long, but I have finally created a page for the book: you can find it here. The page contains: Cover images for both hardcover and paperback editions (the contents are otherwise the same) The ISBNs for both [...]
Partly inspired by the shadows produced by the lighting at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park and trying to photograph a single page of a book without being able to remove it… The distraction would be too much beside the inevitable distortion of lines curving into a common edge helpless against the angles of [...]
Dear Monday, Rain. Yup, that’s Monday all right. Love, Kevin (20 May 2019)
My attention has been elsewhere today, so this is all I’ve got… Tonight the culture is focused on its latest obsession I’m focused on one of its previous obsessions to draw attention away from my obsessions varied and sundry and never far from my thoughts far though I am from theirs (19 May 2019) Wishes [...]
Dear Sunday, There are always plot holes. Love, Kevin (19 May 2019)
From today’s pre-reading workshop… I thought I saw Wilfred Brimley outside the bookstore staring in through the window But he looked confused and lacked the moustache and we’re too far from Wyoming for Wilfred Brimley to be out wandering at 5 p.m. on a Saturday I resisted the urge to laugh (18 May 2019) Wishes [...]
Dear Saturday, I want a cookie. Love, Kevin (18 May 2019)
This is a repost. Admittedly, it’s not very poem-like, but… Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park. Despite the title [and refrain], this ended up being a general rumination on war and violence. Revolutions are in/convenient. The disarray and chaos stirred up by the revolution, if done right, will be sucked up and swept away in [...]
A two-fer today. I’m sure this isn’t as clever as I thought it was when I wrote it—but the news is the news, and this pretty much was the news this week… All life is precious that’s why you must die (17 May 2019) Wishes sometimes have consequences is available—order now from your favorite local [...]
Responding to something I saw online. Not sure why I thought of a driving metaphor… I can’t tell you to adjust your turn when I don’t know where my own hands are on the wheel Some curves are tougher to navigate when fog and dusk descend together rendering headlights useless The notion of a glass-smooth [...]
Dear Friday, Round One complete. We’ll see next week if I’m still in contention. Love, Kevin (17 May 2019)
The words to kindle the soul and make your thoughts fumble. @fumblethethought
Clandestine tales cling to these forlorn ankles.
An open view of my Thoughts
"A beginning of the new change"
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