Ordinary Average Thoughts

It’s a state of mind… 1 Sometimes it feels like hunger Sometimes it feels like disease Neither sneaks up on me I ease into them deliberately but without deliberation 2 The human form is ripe for exploitation Within Without Fitted in between impulses controlled by the oldest one of all 3 No flash required 4 [...]

Guess what movie I’ve been watching… Barbra Streisand keeps calling Ryan O’Neal “Steve” but it’s endearing, not irritating and the 3o-year-old Barbra is good at comedy with a lightness and soft edges that didn’t survive the curly perm that clung to her for years after it first showed up in A Star Is Born (She’s [...]

Words. no praise not even a nimble switch as the light goes down and colours fade for the night imagine what words she might say that could save you no, there’s no being saved fantasy twists take dark turns orbits only aim to meet somewhere in the middle imagine what words might save you if [...]

This poem has absolutely nothing to do with that thing. A fragrance unnoticed A gesture remembered long after it fades Glances that long but trail off… In the end the turning away (24 May 2020) Wishes sometimes have consequences—available to order from your favorite local bookstore! IndieBound search: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=wishes+sometimes+have+consequences If they can’t get it for [...]