Archive for June, 2008
a bit of blather
how do you ever know you made the right choice?
i’m here and i’m lonely and my job fell through. my boss hasn’t paid me for my training and he won’t give me a schedule -told me so to my face- and won’t call to say when i can work again, so i’m giving up and [...]
Posted on June 24, 2008 Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
A Long Time (typical)
I haven’t written anything here in a long, long time. My bad
To be honest, there’s been quite a bit going on, but I expect most people are filled in on those things, so whatever. Liz and I have moved to Warwick, NY and are now approaching three full weeks of living here. Everything is going [...]
Posted on June 19, 2008 Filed Under Journal | Leave a Comment
No baby. No problem. (Rantvegas)
Since when did everyone get so judgmental when it comes to the decision to NOT have kids?
I remember high school when girls would get pregnant and all the whispers in the hall would turn towards her belly, her relationship with the father or supposed father, her due date, her promiscuity, whether or not she would [...]
Posted on June 18, 2008 Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
alone
The way I planned it, rain only touches my fingertips.
The complicated smell of earth and wet wood infiltrates.
The gray sky is sponge painted in careful swirls.
The growing things are too green with hope.
The rain (pain) is patiently quiet,
background noise,
but growing louder.
Posted on June 14, 2008 Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Where am I?
The tears crash familiar to make salty tide pools between my breasts,
in the curve of my collarbone,
down my arms,
into my mouth where the memories swim,
unable to breathe the strangeness of the air.
The cracked whiteness of the ceiling lets the uncertainty in,
marring would-be smoothness with black rivers,
gray mountain ranges,
erratic and thirsty veins departed from my certain [...]
Posted on June 11, 2008 Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
out in it
the indifferent stillness of summers in their heated dark times draws me out of the man-made coolness into the naturaleza:
yellow lights staring calmly out from stranger houses where i
imagine broad-faced glasses filled with strawberry wine
someone told me I ought to picnic with it, kiss
you with it that made my mouth sticky sweet,
nectar in a seductively [...]
Posted on June 10, 2008 Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
