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  • taking a break

    hi all… i’m taking a break! will be back on Monday refreshed and renewed, and hopefully more creative.

    take a look at older posts… i think with over 200 poems, you’ll have plenty to read ๐Ÿ™‚ bye!

    August 5, 2010

  • recurring dream (lonely farm house)

    at the stop sign
    look left
    to corn fields
    drenched white from
    spilt milk of the moon
    and tip tops of
    sweet corn rolling
    row upon row, past
    one farm house
    lonely but for
    three canopy trees
    and that long driveway
    cutting
    a twisted brown scar — i am
    only gazing,
    gazing,

    August 5, 2010

  • secret games of children

    we discovered
    the game “d” —
    one patch of crab grass
    and one special phrase
    –to the next world!

    but don’t tell those
    younger ones
    waiting on the porch–
    it is so secret
    you have to whisper.

    August 4, 2010

  • coming home from the beach (impossible)

    i left the ocean
    crashing pulling, so
    oblivious, and i
    dragged my wreck of
    salt and hair and
    said goodbye to the
    grains and shells
    the jellies,
    surfers skaters punk kids
    drunks,
    drove out thinking, one
    child builds a fortress and
    guards it with her life
    while the other runs
    with knowledge that high
    tides will always win…
    left driving
    with “flashback weather classic rock”
    and tried to set in motion:
    the impossible comes to life.

    August 2, 2010

  • entropy explains the war

    the 2nd law
    of thermodynamics
    explains the war.
    more later…

    oh, this night is
    exasperation.
    random phrases that may
    be worth regurgitation
    a night of constant
    changing mind,

    the light switch
    on and off again
    descending into chaos

    July 30, 2010

  • bass player at The Horse You Came In On

    Angelo playing inside
    these filthy walls since ’90
    no longer plays to the walls
    but is the walls
    is the smokeyceiling
    theneonlights thehanging
    plants
    the thuddrumthuddrum
    thuddrum comeon !

    all us hangingvines
    pour the cobblestones
    drink seasons moldy classics
    become bassline players like Angelo
    slowly slowly over time, thuddrum
    thuddrum comeon !

    July 28, 2010

  • plants prefer classical music

    the Gerber and I
    share a drink
    and a secret glance–

    the plant sighs! stretches
    leaves towards now
    darkened streets earlier
    bathed in light,
    stretches roots to
    the mazurkas of Chopin

    rolling piano like so many
    other late nights
    dives in the creases
    of my eyes
    and the thin membranes
    of leaves.

    July 27, 2010

  • drawing a blank

    white walls frame
    a white window sill:

    outside colors
    a shade of their
    former selves

    i
    am

    penciled in
    by white walls
    white page,
    TV blank with white noise,
    cursor
    blinking
    wanting
    waiting

    July 27, 2010

  • unattainable

    “i wish i had met you first”
    words that tumble
    head over heels
    backwards
    in a tragic accident
    that lands with a thud,
    a sloppy mess…

    and a hand reaching
    two far inches from
    the soft skin of my cheek.

    July 24, 2010

  • over 200 posts~

    so so so! i’ve made it over 200 posts! pop the champagne!! that’s a whole lot of reading for you (out there), so please take advantage of the lijit search – it will help you navigate through the blog, and through my network of blogs, quickly. i encourage you to go back through the older posts. you never know what you may find! i know i’m sometimes surprised (which is slightly strange considering i’m the author haha).

    enjoy the poetry. pass it to your friends.
    and comment/contact me anytime!

    July 23, 2010

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