July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
8 posts
Variation On the Word Sleep Margaret Atwood I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter your sleep as its smooth dark wave slides over my head and walk with you through that lucent wavering forest of bluegreen leaves with its watery sun & three moons towards the cave where you must descend, ...
Garbage Day
Do me a favor and take
Your love, take it
Out and let it dry, let it ferment
and maybe then, but only then,
Maybe
Will it be enough for me, strong enough
For me, a love fond enough of me
To leave me spiraling
After just one sip
Grow strong, strong
Enough to make me forget, make me
Yearn for the chance to make
Love, sweet love, make me forget
That your love is not sweet
Or better yet take...
Should Have Used Protection
The sun loves me so
he infuses like ski poles
into my snow white skin, his rays
invade every inch I dare uncover and I beg
for more.
Lower my back to the earth and I feel him, the sun
above me, his warmth
make even the back of my eyelids glow.
Seep out through my pores,
beads of perspiration
grow like cancer cells, leave me flooded
in bliss until he rises from
above me and darkness expands,
snow...
May 2011
20 posts
Is It Such A Sin?
I like him better when I’m naked
When I’m drunk or when
I’m stoned-
I didn’t know if he could tell.
I’m stoned, he could tell
He declared so with unwavering conviction and I
Admitted, amused by his attention to such
Trivial matters that he
Caught me
Again
Like he never ceased to do, he
Caught me and that
made him happy, little things make him very happy
I try to learn from that, find joy
In odd...
I Believe
I believe in eating desert first
that every day is a first, a chance for revival
repair, reconciliation, I believe in breaks,
in free time, in living easy not being easy
I believe in setting appointments
with stress and meeting only
at scheduled dates, I believe
experience makes us who we are and taking chances
is vital, that pang of guilt which occasionally comes to pass
is necessary,...
“I want to have experiences. I’m so tired of preparing for life: I want to live...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (via nerdhermit)
April 2011
28 posts
… imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!’ This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the...