Remembering one of the old autumn rituals earlier today… The stadium used to have giant concrete concourses spiralling upwards like corkscrew threads They were perfect for throwing the football around at halftime and peering out over the edge at the lake with the mountain in the distance The other side of the field had bleachers [...]
Dear Sunday, How do you manage to be warm and chilly at the same time? Love, Kevin (14 October 2018)
Wrote down a list of words during today’s poetry readings—marrow, boast, pleasure, terse, lamp-lit, iris, expulsion, mercy, vista, aspen, milk, dialect, antique, Russian, creature—and used as many as I could for this poem… Whatever the stuff of his marrow whatever the dialect of his speech however terse the replies that shun him he takes too [...]
Dear Saturday, It’s good to know there are still happy surprises to be had. Love, Kevin (13 October 2018)
Bonus round… The cracked-screen device is put into capture mode Sluggish and slow it drinks the heat from my fingertip as though it were bourbon after a brush with death The wound rips down the center of the frame challenging notions of propriety while pretending I don’t notice I will blur the image later and [...]
A quiet morning, waiting, and Ruby Throat… There’s some information to be had the rest is probably lost for good but for some pictures of a bandstand and rabbit ears in shadow I feel uncomfortable sometimes disinclined to be reckoned with imagining an explosion unlikely to occur as long as I can’t let go of [...]
Dear Friday, There’s some information to be had, but the rest is probably lost for good. Love, Kevin (12 October 2018)
Starting early today… Expectations are for falling short of placeholders and metaphors extend their courtesies this fine evening Clarity is not on the menu you’ll just have to take what they’ve got This special offer will not be available again until the next commercial break Is it possible to have no circadian rhythm? (11 October [...]
Dear Thursday, Is it possible to have no circadian rhythm? Love, Kevin (11 October 2018)
Strange thing, time… A dividing line so thick I barely remember what lies on the other side so thick the one edge has followed me this whole time so thick it is the timeline what I call ‘before’ only a dot (10 October 2018) I have books available. Links to more information here. [...]
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