December 2009
33 posts
“I have a kitchen-counter full of chopped and washed ingredients but I...”
“…he says he can’t sing but on some mornings, I hear him singing...”
– I am his home.He is my welcome
“I was born with a full sail on my back and an anchor made of tin.”
“Jump off a precipice with parachutes and cords tied to your legs and the wind....”
We split our bodies from who we are very much like a driver to his car, until we are rudely reconciled to our bodies by pain, hunger, or lust. A man wakes up with an unprovoked and glorious erection. A woman is racked by menstrual cramps. Here we become our bodies. Getting stripped and searched is humiliating therefore an offense to the mind but stripping in a sauna or spa can reduce us to our...
Tantrum
I want honey and salt and cheese, I want soft tofu between my toes. I’ll have it one way or the other, every which way. In back allies and foyers. In light or darkness I’ll have it. Named and unnamed I’d want it. I don’t need names nor the consequences between names. I’ll take it fast, slow, all the way or somewhere before it is complete. I’ll take it before the...
“You were always good at fixing broken faucets, specially the one inside our...”
“You never fail to say thank you. Can I trade this boxfull of gratitude for love?”
My pillow is a list of names whispered at night, when I am asleep and less afraid. One more name is added to linger long after the washings. Before sleep, I will slip my hand under the case and the sham and the fallow earth. When I finally fall, my hand will open and spread the names like seeds. I wish this one will grow long after I am awake and again less brave. Just one seed to see the light...
“Sometimes you wish you can be still for a minute so you can be found. You are...”
“Never underestimate the power of a lifetime ahead.”
– Debbie Gibson
“NGAWWWWWWWRRRRRRR.”
“your fingers dance. your mind is a flower”
– mosscake
You are happy, big big big happy. Roaring ocean happy. Skyscraper waves of barrel laughter happy. You knock the air out of my lungs with force and industrial washing machine volume of rolling water. I am upside down and right side up and drowning and looking up your pure happy sunlight. I am six feet away from you dry and thirsty. I could be bitter that i will never cross this sea but I remember...
“Warm shower.”
