Restless. The clock sounds loud at times like this. Visiting family for the holiday, spending much time in the imaginary world of the four year old niece–we build and rebuild kingdoms for the captured princess and the evil prince keeping her there. I am fidgety, all muscles twitching. Workouts have been minimal–I’ve resorted to crunches […]
The saying goes: time owes you nothing. Doesn’t need to teach, doesn’t need to lean on explanation or reasons for the brief, the length–the increments ticking yet constantly abandoned. Too busy living. Too loud, too fast, too focused. Rain in the wires, voices reduced to pin drops in static. I believe it. I’m not owed […]
Just a note to say life’s thrown me a bit sideways lately…I will update soon.
The above = my dominant viewing spot for the past 4, 5 days. Another epic migraine. Except for the 6 hour lie on New Year’s Eve, when I convinced myself I was well enough to go to a party, smile and fake it. I was, of course, wrong. I had the right intentions, however–get some […]
Had another roller coaster dream last night. It happens every now and then, more often than I realize–a dream about waiting in line, pointing out their curves and loops to others, getting in, and riding one, hanging on. Always hanging on, warning my passenger as we ascend that I almost always fall out. I put […]
Eating an apple a day, the green ones if I have the choice. I have to spin it around in my palm a couple times before diving in. I gnaw my way to the carpels while considering the term “apple rootstock.” I quickly decide that I like it.
After I make it through another bad migraine, […]
I started writing a poem at work today. The poem started with a title: “Keats Vs. Beats,” which referred to that night in the year 2000 when four of us sat in a kitchen and had a read-off between John Keats and the beats(Kerouac, Ginsberg, etc). It was the night of my roommate Jessica’s […]