October 2011
1 post
Pull red handle down and hold
while pushing
window out at bottom.
September 2011
2 posts
Few words affect me
so viscerally as the word
”ravioli.”
No mercy
for the flies I find
suspended in my whiskey!
February 2011
1 post
A hawk cries out across
Lake Washington—
I lost my train of thought.
January 2011
1 post
The last living mosquito
in January
found me sleeping.
December 2010
1 post
The tail on the three-legged dog
goes around and around
and around and around and around.
October 2010
2 posts
“It’s Monday.
Slither down the greasy pipe.
So far, so good; no one saw...”
– David Bowie - Joe The Lion (Heroes)
Moments never pass.
We exist in all of them at once,
forever, never-ending.
September 2010
9 posts
The rain slips aimlessly like
loving fingertips over my eyes,
my ears, my cheeks, my lips.
“I have worries,
but I’m not going crazy.
I feel like the rain.”
– Cloud Cult (Dawn, Light Chasers)
The rain on the leaves outside
my window. A saxophone
on a record player somewhere.
All the stars reflections,
elongated on the rippling lake,
point at me.
The sun is low.
My shadow peaks somewhere
beyond the county line.
Sitting with a peach beside the
ship canal, trying not to eat it,
trying to prolong September.
Flowers, balloons, and a dog
on the street by the noodle shop.
Everyone looks at the dog.
Rainclouds, gentle in the
morning light, shimmer boldly
in the evening.
August 2010
2 posts
In my kingdom,
time will be our currency;
We can spend it how we want.
Summer tells a joke,
but no one laughs
because she serves it up so cold.
July 2010
2 posts
Trimming photos down to size,
gluing them to pages in a book
for you to see.
Poconos! Applesauce!
Calamari!
Sassafras!
June 2010
5 posts
Seven crows
and a pigeon
yapping at a red-tailed hawk.
Something changed while
I was gone.
Never mind. Let’s eat!
“I got a job
cleaning toilets
at a nightclub in Baltimore.”
– Cass McCombs - That’s That
Her nails
matched the pink paper cup
that her cupcake was in.
Despite one little patch of blue
in all the clouds,
today’s a laundry day.
May 2010
11 posts
“Dawn, and Space Shuttle
re-entered atmosphere
over Pacific Ocean.”
– Astronaut Soichi Noguchi, via Twitter
(re: final landing of Atlantis orbiter)
An eagle soars beneath
a giant rain cloud
and the setting sun.
A smile from the right girl
at the wrong time
also makes the whole day better ;)
A smile from the right girl
at the right time
makes the whole day better :)
The clouds are such that I can’t tell
where the Olympic Mountains end
and they begin.
Two bumblebees concur,
upon a close examination,
that I am not a flower.
There’s sand in my shoes
from three different beaches,
so I’m doing something right.
Dozens of discarded limes
disturb my path to work
on May the 6th.
Pressure is a cup of tea
filled to the brim
on a wobbly table.
Drove down the coast.
Hugged a tree older than
Charlemagne.
April 2010
23 posts
“My essays lying scattered
on the floor, fulfill their needs
just by being...”
– David Bowie - Conversation Piece
Detritus
in every home,
on every TV screen!
Dreamed I was a farmer—
had a chicken that was bigger
than Manhattan!
Charlie Parker, Cabernet,
and half a moon.
I think she’ll like it.
Seven crows—
or is it eight?
—harvesting a bagel.
Actually,
I have seen worse impressions of
The Count of Monte Cristo.
The scavenger approaches in a cloud
of Pert Plus
and cigarettes.
A Corgi with a floppy ear
licks her nose
and dares me not to smile.
“Black-eyed ravens, they spiral down.
They tilt his head back
to the...”
– David Bowie - The Dreamers
Dreamed I spent a weekend
in Chicago. Ate a pizza,
took some pictures, saw the Bean.
In the final moments,
the impossible strikes
with a firm, cold hand.