Category Archives: Daily Life

Everything from impromptu thoughts to well-constructed observations.

Choke

Art, Daily Life, First Impressions, Quick Thoughts

The heart is about the same.
Defects and all.
An aquarium first full
Crystal clarity of design
Will it stand up under pressure
Water displaced finds a way
Like hormones and nature

About to burst
Tearing at the seams
Hot water starts trickling
dripping steady flow
gathering at edges
staining sleeves and napkins

Tight, acutely aware
Consequences abound
Least of expectations
Imaginable disappointment
Butterflies are great
for their own sake.

Captivated by the what-if
Loving myself
Mercenary
or
Missionary

Then Again

Art, Quick Thoughts

Growing up, unfamiliar often equated to bad. The closer you live to the sun influences your opinion of hot. I’m prone to diaphoresis – the egg to my anxiety. No reason to choose a humid climate. Not to mention drama.

I’m flying higher than ever, smiling so much I almost want the wax to melt. Just to relax. Then I bow forward and hang my head. Miles left to go before I rest. Upward momentum, coasting along. Not sinking, just floating still.

I forgot about gliding.

Craigslist

Art, mur, Quick Thoughts

Anything you want
Written
Like love letters
Odes
To body parts
Pleas
For loving touch
Scattered
Among the perverts
Objects
Of anonymous desire

Anyone you want
Peddle
Stuff and emotions
Attract
Desperate or crazy
Sell
What you got
Hope
Someone wants it
Forget
Why I did

TANSTAAFL
4
LIFE

Pillows

Art, Quick Thoughts

Finally comfortable
After all the peas
Not to mention carrots
Essentially a princess
Alone in a tower
Don’t rescue me

A bolster
Good mattress
Baddha konasana
Cotton clothes
A wholly viable
connection

Earth and honey
Dripping sweet
Beneath the hive
Special purity
Sticky clean
Excretions

Sit lifted.
Open.
Cross yourself.

Team Charlie

Art, mur, Quick Thoughts, Random, Reasons for Things

I lent a
specially
pre-ordered
personally signed
1st edition
American Gods
To my BEST FRIEND
LindsAy
Right after I finished reading it
In 2001

Once
I asked for it back
Seeing it displayed
No dust cover
on a manicured shelf
at herĀ  party
celebrating
a new bungalow
his commitment
And always having money.

Stone-faced
Insisting
THAT one
is HER copy

Lying bitch.

That’s my memory
held hostage by
her insanity.

I still have the jacket.
I love that book.
Someone should know.

Axe

Art, mur, Quick Thoughts

What a difference 33 inches makes.

Metallic clouds rose tinted
Shattered below ground

Anxiety pooling at my feet
emotional dross
lubing
the way
to my heart,
rose-tinted.

Built upon steel
Forging a cauldron
warm and safe
Mind the gap

Home

Art, Daily Life, Future Plans, mur, Quick Thoughts, Reasons for Things

Tonight felt like coming home. After leaving for so long it’s strange to feel back. Like the first summer after college. Forgotten among misfits, all of us toys.

I built a bed today. My first bed in many ways. It feels better not being on the floor. I feel like a cat in a tree. Enjoying the view. Not thinking about the climb down. Inevitable.

I love my little life. Low maintenance integrity, always smiling. What’s not to love? Starting over is not bad. Parts of it doesn’t feel good. That’s why some people peel their vegetables. I like to eat the skin, that’s where the history is.

Time to invest in trampolines.

BagOcK

Art, Quick Thoughts

The first thing I think
Is why
not who or where.
The colored statements
Of marginal people
Stirs the cauldron.
We’re still melting
Salted with outliers
Peppered with love.

Abide and elude
Cool your heels dude
Finish the last war
Learn from the past
Too old to march
Too young to lead
Cusp generations
Sure got it tough

Sub to the urban
Dom to the rural
Easy to see why
Struggle unseen
Pain beneath scars.
Destiny leads temerity
To the fate of pandas
And pod people.