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You must stack stories from the foundation up.
From the sad heart and the feet tired of supporting it.
Language is architecture, after all, not an air capsule,
not a hang glide. This is real life.
So don’t invite anyone to a house that hasn’t been built.
Because no one unbuilds meticulously
and meticulosity is what allows hearing.
Three millions [...]
I love the concept of weekends that force me to see where I’m not yet living the way I intend, boldy throwing about words whose definitions need to change once I hit a resting place for them– always inadequate. The weekends themselves? Difficult, but immensly satisfying.
What does it mean for me to be transparent? To [...]
My cousin Em read this poem at my grandfather’s wake & it has been stuck with me since. D.H. Lawrence always knows when to appear in my life…
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And now
the best of all
is to be alone, to possess one’s soul in silence.
Nakedly to be alone, unseen
is better than anything else in the world,
a relief like [...]
The best thing about Joni Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon is not “Woodstock” nor “Big Yellow Taxi,” nor even “The Circle Game”– too preachy. The best thing– her moans during “Blue Boy.” Devastate me every time.
Have a lists of shoulds that I refuse to let dictate my evening. At least wipe the coffee spots from the floor. At least do the dishes. At least clean the toilet…
At least write poems, work on my thesis. This is where I am, though. Cold, hands dirty with dinner than I couldn’t help but [...]
Can’t convince myself to sleep quite yet. Need to be writing more. Exhausted. Hands smell like cinnamon, fingers like fig jam. Drinking Gingerbread Cookie tea. Wanted to eat the apple bits from the pot.
Devin arrives on Sunday. I’ve been craving intimacy in inconvenient ways. Checked my email & facebook over a hundred times today, easy. [...]
Stars are visible in Pottstown tonight (!!) A doe & two fawn crossed through my headlights only to collide with the swing set near the entrance of my neighborhood. Now, I’m at home, waiting for my herbal tea to steep, hoping that I can get some sleep before going to breakfast with Jamie & Kristen [...]
I was at the Enterprise Rental Car Counter renting a planet-killing SUV when I found out my grandfather died. & likely as he died, too. My mom told me when I called to find out whether Allstate covered rental cars. She though this meant I got in an accident, but really it just meant I [...]
Yes, I currently have swine flu.
Yes, I went to the emergency room for the first time for something besides a bodily injury for the first time since I was eight or nine.
Yes, my grandfather died on Saturday morning.
Yes, yes, yes.
All I can seem to do is bask in the absurdity& spend lots of money trying [...]
I am in Idaho. Devin is in class. Nick has the swine flu. I could be doing something besides writing in the basement of the frat house, but the Obamania on Facebook has got me thinking about intentions / semantics, largely, & one of my classmates wrote a poem that had me considering the word [...]
