An anonymous response to a query (‘Anonymously tell me what time it is there and what you’re thinking about’) on tumblr. Not so anonymous now, I guess… 10:24. >> Time is heavy and life is light. Or the other way round. >> I never noticed the little red stars before today. >> I'm moving things [...]
I hate thinking when I have a cold… I open the blinds in the morning and turn up the heat I have breakfast I shower and go about my day the grocery store the post office sometimes the bank maybe stop somewhere for lunch I listen to Willie Nelson in the car and marvel how [...]
Some truths emerge gradually… It’s so sad to sleep through all the best dreams but be stuck in the ones that lurch you from place to place catching your coat on improbable details and still wake up the next morning remembering nothing Weeds poke through the small rocks that constitute the substitute for a yard [...]
December again… Winter bells and the poem I forgot welcome me into December The weather report says snow is coming in the morning but will melt by afternoon Perhaps revealing the poem (1 December 2019) Wishes sometimes have consequences—order now from your favorite local bookstore! IndieBound search: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=wishes+sometimes+have+consequences If they can’t get it [...]
The coldest days are often the clearest… Golden light and chill blinded eyes and cold feet Calm and an unsettled feeling This is the day like the day yesterday like the day before and so it goes On I go stopping to check if anyone’s listening then going on once I see they’re not Calm [...]
Written during an open mic… I want to spike off spindly in every possible direction without form or predictability Where harkens the decline of untrue wishes and cockeyed symmetry In the throne formed by impossible angles only the impossible princess can sit The merely possible need not apply (25 November 2019—posted November 26) [...]
The title is a phrase I came up with about 25 (maybe 26) years ago… By any means necessary you must feel what it means to feel You must align yourself with the tempo that presents You must map the rhythm with every part of your being You must feel it within you around you [...]
In a bit of a mood today… That’s the problem I was going to get ice cream but I forgot I could go back, I suppose but the parking lot is murder this time of the afternoon — Imagine things are happening They are—to someone though maybe not to me — I know that’s going [...]
I saw a photo, and this is what I felt. That grey-silver stripe doesn’t tell me anything I just know I like it It makes me feel you’re real or have that certain sense of style It doesn’t say anything about me I’ll leave that to you I may be who you think I am [...]
Nothing deep—just one of those small moments. Waiting in an empty space surrounding remnants of other people I used to be Trees watch through the open door keeping quiet in the breeze as they always do Timetables bend in at the corners so we can see the edges but not what lies beyond A little [...]
