We’ve had a mild winter. We’re still in February, but I’m saying it loud and proud with my middle finger to the jinx–it’s been mild. No snowfall to temporarily paralyze routine of home to work and work to home. I’m more than happy about it. That being said, I’m starting to feel the deepening groove […]
epilogue of the bear trap
I sleep in a square. I bookend my profiles with pillows and I keep two below my head. Waking means lifting and climbing’ sleeping means sinking. I dream surrounded.
In the back of the house, rotting limes. They liquefy. Porous green to a brown gray mass, happy dents.
Tell me what surviving […]
It goes back. Way back. Past the butcher paper tracings of our bodies in elementary class. Before the infamous “ain’t ain’t a word” argument of ‘88. Before the blood on Halloween at ten and a half. Before the first kiss, first swig, first burst through curfew, too early for my interests. Always after that experience […]
tree in frick park
Being sick for the past 2 weeks does, in fact, have its advantages. Very very tiny, strange advantages but there they are nonetheless. One is a change of perspective. Exhaustion and congestion ruled my days so I had no choice but to take it down about two or three or five notches. […]
abacus the best friend cat
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waking up in the woods
artistic statements of yore
bloopers
Dear Maddie,
The trees were on fire along the drive to see you. Even in the middle of a season I am sometimes shocked to see proof–yes, here we are at the end of October. I’m glad the seasons surprising me never gets old, that I never grow accustomed and forget how magical the shift and […]
war protest rally, frick park 2004
Dear City,
You are good to my heart. You offered a soft place to land, and let me stain the surface with a shell-less flesh. The wet fist. I stared past the wounds and right at you.
I was young, I left everything. Now if I go anywhere else, here is where […]