This bit of mysteriousness emerged from somewhere… The scene of my surrender is one flight up from the sidewalk This is where I lived before the war that took you from me I couldn’t wait to leave but chose to stay My open-door policy trapped me inside I spent years here stashing away my secrets [...]
Tag: forgetting
Never mind—they’re gone (A poem)
Note to self: put it on paper before you forget… What line did I forget this time— you know, the one I didn’t write down? It was so clear a few minutes ago Now I can’t recall not a bit of it not at all It felt so brilliant it should have stuck around but words [...]
Lost poems and closely held secrets (A poem)
Off to a decent start this morning, thanks in part to the extra hour… Entire poems run through my head before I can write them down By morning’s light they’ve disappeared never to return All the eloquence I possess breathed in those lost lines of verse Awake here in the new morning the forgetting feels [...]
Before I settle down to work (a poem)
Tired this morning after spending an hour and a half in horrible Seattle traffic last night. I found myself turning to ordinary details… The odor of bleach gives way to the smell of fish and chips with a hint of vinegar I’d almost forgotten it’s Friday a habit I have every week, like clockwork the [...]
Erasure (a poem)
A stray thought turned into a poem… All those years no longer exist what’s left is an empty space where the time used to be as though I skipped from then to now between the inhale and the exhale Almost no tangible reminders exist of our what used to be maybe a couple of photos [...]
Daylight Saving Time (a poem)
It’s that time again… I slept through the hour that just got taken away I wish I could remember the dream I was having (8 March 2015)
Ordinary Average Thoughts 