there are a lot of you, but these are the big kahunas of the day:
jason. even though i talked to you on the phone today while i was at the swimming beach, even though i could go a year without seeing you and it would be like no time has passed, even though we will [...]
Archive for June, 2009
people i am missing
Posted in life on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
june update
Posted in life on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ok, so i made this huge list of books to read and then summer started and i got caught up in writing poetry and costuming annie, and hanging out with a and z, and the book reading has not been happening like i thought. what i have read:
the sportswriter by richard ford. run, don’t walk. [...]
a whole slew of new
Posted in life on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
trying out a new form..here are a couple of them.
The Word Made Flesh
Some say it is a gospel truth that suddenly, there among the men,
was one who moved through both worlds.
He was the word made flesh, dear,
and for every mystical sentence we offer up into the din–
for every version of the boy and girl
we [...]
the gypsy palmist
Posted in life on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
i wrote this after reading ‘the sportswriter’ by richard ford, which i highly recommend.
“The Gypsy Palmist”
I.
The gypsy palmist—
her scarves thick with the perfume
of mystery—
reaches for his bare hand,
her own heavy with metal rings,
semi-precious stones,
and prediction.
Her grandmotherly
touch—incongruous in the
rich red room—
warms his wrist as she turns it,
breathing a low ‘mmm hmm’
as she studies his fault lines
and [...]
breathe
