Monthly Archives June 2010

“sticky”

TweetStanding in an underground railway station built alongside a highway in the middle of summer slippy-hot that falls on you like a damp blanket your mother had been heating in the over on the lowest setting to lie over you when you were sick the cars themselves are no better the air conditioning roaring helplessly [...]

nymphs

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Scarab Poem

Tweet Creation, curved like an egg, opens with gilded golden wings. They call you Khepera. You move close to the earth, eat bits of old. An amulet allowing ascension adorning the deceased with spells written on cool stone: prayers balanced against a feather. You push the sun across the sky and motion the moon to [...]

Reflection on San Rafael

TweetDelving deep into iron-red rock, the swell of San Rafael, Bodies become canyon, pebbles, sand, dust. Whispers: primordial language of water. Juniper and sage spice thin air. Scent and sound discordant coexistence with a harsh, gracefully broken land. Persistent sunlight grazes a shear rock face, ghosts twist between crevices and emerge as ancient art carved [...]

“Role”

In the next series of frames, he could see Merrimac smoothly part the crowd on his way to check out their suspects.
And then running.
And then falling.
Over and over and over again. Until the scene lost its affect.

Ode to Cerulean

TweetPacific Blue and Wild Blue Yonder Embrace the hearts of sea and sky. Seduction and passion Belong to Sapphire and Lapis Lazuli. Indigo possesses the soul of jazz, Before it becomes the darkest hue of Midnight Blue. Blue Bell and Periwinkle Are for innocence and flowers, Turquoise and Royal Are brave and empowered. Steel, Cadet [...]