January 2010
10 posts
True Life
I wear my boots everyday because the clicking of the heels when I walk makes me feel important
Confession: Using an interesting font is a sufficient motivator for my newborn procrastinating self.
Oh Robespierre and your inflammatory speeches. Vive la france! Death to tyranny, villains, royalists, and nonconformists.
Adventures in Resolution
How many times do we make New Years resolutions we never keep? This will be the year I’ll go to the gym every day, stop procrastinating, learn to cook, quit smoking (insert appropriate resolution here). If you’re lucky you might make it a week or two.
A lot of the reason resolutions dissolve right along with the memory of that guy you met over vacation is because we set the bar too high. After...
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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
My hand is empty of yours as I sit by the fire,
looking at your picture. Remembering
how you drink your coffee black with one sugar.
The way you fold the dish towels and nestle them in the drawer.
How you can only listen to concertos in the car.
When I think of you,
I find that I no longer hear
the rich timbre of your voice, the warmth of your laugh
that time when we got lost in the city
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Gaia in Agony
The rain tripped down
to patter upon the ground and splatter on the bricks.
The sky was cleaved in two
as I hovered round the eaves
to hear the gargling rustle
of clear water in the pipes.
A far off boom and crash
another low grumbling cry
the sweat of heaven runs down my brow
And stings my eye. I could not see
for the flashes of anger and the
seeds of danger that fall in hard, chip...
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Six in Innocence
How quickly in an hour
does the soft sun fade from passing bower
bird cries fan across the water
dragonflies skim and tiny chicks totter.
Late it would seem
that days spin out from each last sunbeam.
Here we are still and light
buoyed from trouble by the waves of external strife and fight.
Our small prism is netted by the spider’s gossamer thread
entangled and vetted by the harmonies we...
