After watching the digitized film my mom had saved since 1964…
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Month: October 2019
Dear Friday…
Dear Friday,
Clear as gunk.
Love,
Kevin
(25 October 2019)
Dear Thursday…
Dear Thursday,
I hope this means the sneezing thing is over for a while, maybe.
Love,
Kevin
(24 October 2019)
Dear Wednesday…
Dear Wednesday,
Another day, another device. Apparently I need more devices in my life.
Love,
Kevin
(23 October 2019)
In the mirror, silence accelerates (a poem)
Title inspired by a line from Jean Cocteau’s Orphée…
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Dear Tuesday…
Dear Tuesday,
Still waiting…
Love,
Kevin
(22 October 2019)
Dear Monday…
Dear Monday,
I forgot what I was going to say.
Love,
Kevin
(21 October 2019)
The mysterious figure who watches me while I sleep (a poem)
Written while watching Jean Cocteau’s Orphée…
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Bookstore Poem #671
Yesterday’s pre-reading workshop was about death. This is the poem I wrote.
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Something my father wrote
Tomorrow would have been my father’s 88th birthday. The following is something he wrote in September 1998, apparently for one of the classes he was taking to get his massage therapist license. (Though he never did massage as anything other than a side gig—he was an attorney—he continued to take courses on subjects related to massage and healing until his health began to decline.) I have made a couple rounds of copy edits to fix small stuff and enhance readability.
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