The quiet well calls
daring me to speak
I am stones breaking the still tension
of surface, water ripples to embrace me
the words come softly,
urgently and I am weeping.
The gravel crunches beneath my shoes
feasting on confusion
turning about my heels daring
defy me, they taunt,
take another path oh stray from this course
find yourself lost and penniless
The tree looks down on [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Discernment.
Posted in Poetry on June 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Poemification
Posted in Poetry on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tell me I’m crazy
so maybe I could love myself
the wind that strokes my face
just a hellish temperature
You can’t paint the walls blue
it’ll make all my makeup run
tell me I’m thirteen again
so maybe I could start again
the smoke’s in the air
so much incense and burning flesh
pump a fist in the air
KO heaven for a piece of [...]
Facts About Angel Cake
Posted in Snippet on June 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
me: So what is angel cake?
k: It’s like this fluffy cake thing.
me: Made out of ground-up angels.
k: …I think they’re healthy too. Like zero calories.
a: Right, because angels have zero calories.
Envy.
Posted in Snippet on June 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Oh.
It’s you again. How are you?
Take a seat, might as well, since you aim to stay. By the way, I still hate you.
Necessary? I doubt that. You unsettle my stomach. I sweat on the bottoms of my feet. I can’t write when you’re around.
Well, go ahead and stay. Just lie on the couch or whatever. [...]
Lotus.
Posted in One liner on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Irony is naming a super-car-producing company after the symbol of purity and detachment.
Mr. Doubt and Mr. Faith
Posted in Snippet on June 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Faith is not the antithesis of doubt.
Doubt looks you straight in the eye, without a quiver in his lips and says, “Of course it’s impossible.” And with that, he delivers you from insanity.
When you are on your ass, Faith extends a hand toward you with a wink and a nod. You pull, expecting just a [...]
My Gut. Also, Love at First Sigh(t).
Posted in Reflection on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am a believer of (in?) love at first sight.
Not that all loves must begin as such, or that first sights are more significant than the twenty third sight (because they are not). I believe in love at first sight because when I met my wife, I imagined myself to be in love with her. [...]
Current Likes.
Posted in Snippet on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Am reading (almost finished) American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Am reading (in the middle of) Gunslinger by Stephen King.
Have read first page of (and found myself impressed by) Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust.
Have read first several pages of (and fallen in love with and splurged by buying a full-priced hard cover of) The Brief Wondrous Life [...]
Beginnings.
Posted in Reflection on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Beginnings are never easy, but they must be done. For me, eased into, like putting your bare feet in the sea foam, descending, wave after wave into the soft sand, sometimes tickled by sand crabs or psychological manifestations of crawlies that live underneath the beach.
Then, run back up the sand, the white, hot, burning particles [...]
