(Movies + nostalgia) x tumblr = … You know, I’d like to paraphrase but I can’t remember the exact line so I’ll get it wrong either way I’d love to put words on my skin where you touched me but there are some places the needle can’t reach and some places I kept at a [...]
A couple days late with this one… I think about lines all the time new, original, tried and true Convinced they’re all doomed to failure I discard them with abandon not quite tempered with restraint But I don’t dare address David Byrne’s question (10 December 2018—posted December 12th) I have books available. Links to more [...]
Rain this afternoon… So many songs about the rain make it into misery or a minor landmark staining the day Others cloak it in severity— a cloudburst a torrential downpour sheets of rain falling sideways I have attributed rain to the compassion of autumn But it’s only weather, isn’t it? (11 December 2018) I have [...]
As it turned out, I took a polaroid of some trees yesterday afternoon… They are everywhere in my life but we’ve never established that level of intimacy I breathe they breathe next to me There’s always a space between us (9 December 2018) I have books available. Links to more information here. Or, if you [...]
As the title says, written in response to Gatesville,WA at VALA Arts… The waste products of suburbia are artefacts now of hellfire battlefields in the Pacific theatre wide roads leading farther from home cracks everywhere chemical swirl Ghosts that look like us (8 December 2018) I have books available. Links to more information here. Or, [...]
What I did at the Xmas party… ‘Kevin, would you like some sauerkraut?’ I used to hear this every holiday— Thanksgiving and Xmas, twice a year except for the occasional Xmas we’d spend in California And every holiday— Thanksgiving and Xmas, twice a year except for the occasional Xmas we’d spend in California I’d decline, [...]
So cold today… Tonight I yield to the cold surrendering to layers of blankets building up body heat over a course of hours now and then glancing at the time which I hold in disregard as I follow one trail after another never deciding on one to take Atmos and atmospheres incandescent light banished to [...]
I was not watching TV when I wrote this. Looks like they’ve stumped the panel this round the question wasn’t even a curveball— nobody knew where to look Oddly enough nobody seems to be keeping score either so now everybody’s arguing about who was ahead— and by how much The viewing audience has slipped out [...]
Thinking out loud… I want a different life one with time and substance to move the day along its own measured pace— no rush, no crunch There’s a café in Paris or a kissaten in Tokyo waiting for me with the best cup of coffee on earth and an afternoon made for lingering music made [...]
(Not actually about the Dakotas) A large weather system moves across the state and the five o’clock news No one pays attention because weather maps lack detail during the afternoon commute Plus everybody’s listening to something else and either singing along or yelling at the radio A large dark stain at the side of the [...]
