December 2010
25 posts
Fragments, fractals, relevance →
I write a lot of things that I don’t know what to “do” with. Homeless fragments stacked up in Word documents with names like “drivel written on the bus” and “ongoing drivel” that pile up in my “needs…
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Some homeless baby poems
I think I’m going to start sharing some of my orphan writings here. See lengthy Blogspot post whenever it eventually migrates to Tumblr.
1. “Do I put you behind me? Or do I hold you in front of me. A warning. A set of assembly instructions. A handful of feathers. In the cartoon, you are roadrunner, and I am the coyote. I am only clever for five minutes. I have modern equipment. I have...
2010 overview →
This year: I started freelancing in earnest; moved back to the city I was born in; got a new job I like less but, for now, want more; lost a cat; nearly lost one of my closest friends; gained but…
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New recipe
Lazy jerk pumpkin (and secret squash) soup: roasted or boiled or microwaved pumpkin and secret acorn squash, curry, onions, half&half, salt. Crockpot. 4-6 hours. And one lazy jerk.
Old/Young →
Robins, both of them, found a white hair on my head. I found it too, later. It’s three inches long and sticks straight out. I will probably hunt for it in the mirror out of odd vanity, the way I do…
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“If you’re wild now but have ever been domestic
your safety’s...”
– Y Madrone - Tulip is the bravest flower, I mean bird.
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Stocking stuffers this year: 4 different kinds of lotion, hand warmers, cheese curds.
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“It’s like listening to Data talk to the Borg.”
– Adrian
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“You are going. You are returning.
You found this thing. You lost another.”
– Paul Guest
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Acceptance →
New Wave Vomit published some of my poems. Hooray! & Crispin Best’s For Every Year project will feature me for the year 1601. Now all I need is a lunar eclipse and to finish my shopping and…
Recordings of Gertuide Stein →
sings me to sleep
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Link →
This was my favorite moment in Dead Man, even though it didn’t really contribute much to the overall story. I think I liked and am still chewing on what the movie was trying to do: I…
we were not the first poets here
amouse:
found poetry at the bell museum of natural history:
one had taken root amongst a plant window:
Hi Tumblr
Mary encouraged me to try to use Tumblr more. So I’m going to set up my Blogger to import here and also stuff all other small interesting things and maybe finally have some sort of unified web presence with the archive-ability of Blogspot (for text) and the ease and prettiness of Tumblr (for photos and links).
…maybe.
Driverless Car of the Future (1957) →
Play Scrabble and bond with your family!