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I wrote this piece after I told the originator of the youtube video "Mieders Alpine Coaster" by David Jellis how I felt watching it.
I admitted I was a voyeur not a participant, but that his video fascinated me to the point that I needed to write ab
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After sportscasters announced the assassination and while the reverberations of the words were still fading people were already shouting
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Everybody breaks.
Everything splinters.
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1. HeWomen's heads turned when Remy stopped in the doorway — as they always did. He noticed — as he always did — but paid no attention as he scanned the room. Too nervy to care. No sign of Fiona. Good. It paid to be the one doing the…
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These were the kind of days children dreamed of. A warm sun shone over Coronado, California. December weather on the island did not prevent outside play. The wind off the bay remained soft, even if chilled. Church let out early. There was time to pla
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Paris is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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There were only six passengers aboard the small ferry...
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You held my hand when I hit the ground and told me the shakes would start soon.
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under your skin the moon is alive
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“You look strangely familiar,” he said, taking a drink and swinging his leg over the horse, landing on the ground beside me ...
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My sister / craves raisons
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The room smelled of an old rank basement. Boys and girls of all ages crowded the stage. The room was dark with only a few lights that hung from above keeping the crowd dark and silhouetting Chris on drums.
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They were just boys, the Nazis I mean, young in their twenties, not much older than my brother Cyril.
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When you see him, you'll know.That's what the prophecy was. Well, part of it, at least. The prophecy that Tabitha was to be the next Earth mother. That when she saw her partner, she would know. Keith, and his mission partner, and the elders, they had made it so. Made it…
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I’ll sit up
all night,
I don’t mind.
I don’t have to
Go to work,
Or
Wake up early.
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He hates this body no less now/
than he did at 14 for its pudginess/
and the hair that can’t conform
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anxiety
said Kierkegaard
is the dizziness
of freedom
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Betrayal of course is the great human crime. As I found out when . . . .
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There are problems we lovingly fashion . . .
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Until the ivy hides me in
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The old man moved on an automatic wheelchair. He stopped just short of Sora. He waited for her to move, but all she did was shed one tear.
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"I found a grey pubic hair the other day."
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I allow myself one hour every two weeks. Devoting 335 of my 336 hours to her and the kids is beyond dutiful.
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A man comes out of the waves
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He flipped through a book of poems Ani’d given me. Nothing fell out so he tore it in two. I said his mama must notta read to this one and one of the older cops laughed and he hit me.
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The aisle, nave and/
transept twist themselves/
into an auditorium.
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before your full lips touch
mine.
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1. Walking here
with you
on these narrow
strands
of clean air
& imagination
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