https://aurorae.tumblr.com/post/171944952856 The pink mascot bunny bows his head in front of the vending machine He’s got no pockets (11 July 2020 – posted July 12th) Wishes sometimes have consequences is 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 you, you can always find it on Amazon: [...]
. It’s got a mind of its own like the sprouts coming up between the rocks and the cracks in the pavement I pull up a few every time I come back from the mailbox but the roots are stubborn They must go all the way to the bottom I find more every day (8 [...]
Every year for the last few years, I have written a poem to mark Tanabata. Here is this year’s installment. As we remain here, locked away we look for signs in hopes that the stars will align bringing us together this day — In my mind’s eye I see her looking back at me one [...]
I typed the first line to see how it would look in the Cardea typeface. The undisputed king of thunderless storms and wordless tantrums doesn’t have a poker-worthy face but he does have a knack for the art of distraction You’d never know if you already knew The undisputed king of a loss for words [...]
Reversing my usual scheme now, so the poem is no longer in italics (except for the occasional italicized word). the sensation is always foreign a centimeter or two to the left and it would escape without ever identifying itself it may still in this stillness each time I open my eyes I have travelled somewhere [...]
Heavy on the metaphor, hold the mayo. Do not mistake the land that lies fallow as barren; riches come from roots that take hold and grow, not from seeds scattered carelessly in numbers that choke the soil. Do not forget that what has grown come harvest will feed the soul only what the soil has [...]
Another phase I’m going through—until the next one. The magic carpet ride isn’t ours to take ——— Our children’s children’s children won’t be around to tell the stories of strawberry sleigh rides and blurry photographs That’ll be somebody else with someone else in some other place 2000 light years away ——— I heard someone say [...]
Lots of weird little associations and a random phrase out of nowhere add up to this (and the photo has nothing to do with any of it). Could you maybe fashion the holes into something I could slip through? I should be able to come up with the missing pieces but my imagination is out [...]
When more words won’t add anything… Was it that long ago? It seems so, I suppose— my sense of time has slipped by along with the memory. I wish I could have seen you there— you were there, of course, but I was not present. And in the end, I ended up here. (17 June [...]
… Every day, a new headline declares ‘a Black Man’ dead Because to print his name would be too much to bear (13 June 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 you, you can always find it on Amazon: Hardcover: https://smile.amazon.com/Wishes-Sometimes-Consequences-Kevin-OConner/dp/0998878154/ [...]
