March 2012
58 posts
“Life is both an instructor and a plaything.”
“To Jonathan the J Clyde bartender: the cider was rad, but your wit was worth...”
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our topography
The sun sets in the West and we
lay side by side on our wide bed.
In the fading autumn light,
I watch the rhythm of your chest.
I watch the swathes of colored sky
fading neatly down the hills:
purple, blue, green, all falling
down to gold, to illuminate
the dusky landscape below us.
Below us is a rural quilt
where treelines are the seams that sew
the fields together on the earth.
The ridges...
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red line
314 A
Christopher Street,
across from the Fat Cat bar.
She is freezing in the snow.
She is coming to meet you.
She is on the subway,
off the subway,
on the subway again-
thinking of the dark subway
and the first time you kissed
(which was on the subway,
the red line, the 1 train).
You were only friends
(you are only friends),
but she, cold, is coming to meet you.
You acted like it...
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father, can i?
Father, can I please come home?
This asphalt place is not for me:
I hate sight of high-rise glass.
I miss our tall magnolia tree.
Father, can I please come home?
Cold drizzle’s more than I can bear.
I long for Georgia thunderstorms,
the heat-thick rain, electric air.
Father, can I please come home?
The crowds here make me ill at ease.
I’d rather be surrounded by
our throngs of gentle...
The only time I ever saw my father cry, his nine gnarled fingers clawed the driftwood kitchen table, his stony fingernails caked with blood from his own palms. He sobbed silently. His ragged breath was the only sound in the room, except the audible tap of his large tears on the rough wooden tabletop. His form was a portrait of anguish. He made me wonder, “Is sorrow the only intrinsic human...
“No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else’s...”
– H. G. Wells (via nevver)
Amen. And millions feel the same way about my documents, I’m sure.
“Because the gifs and images displayed on a Tumblr page are meant to reflect the...”
– The Tumblr trap: Is Internet culture turning musicians into content-producers? | Music | For Our Consideration | The A.V. Club
Nailed it. (via nedhepburn)
This is true for creatives of all walks of media.
“Every day, we purchase our life with our obedience to Nature.”
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“A Tarantino film soundtrack, Brit punk, and rockabilly had a threesome - and...”
– my review of the Holy Smokes music set, Chattanooga, TN
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p
That particular way you have
of pursing your lips just like so
(which, by the way, you should know,
propels me straight into daydream)
compels me to ponder over
your perfections, imperfections;
our relations in relation
to that one pronunciation:
p.
People, poetry, fluid plans,
paso doble in the public park
(our rhythm pulsing after dark,
perfection in our parallels,
of paso-...
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mother father
My mother was a dancer, once.
You can still see it in the way
she moves about her daily chores,
and never really seems to bore
of purposefully adding grace
to the lighting of a wall sconce.
She has a smooth and airy way
of taking coffee off the brew:
she glides across the kitchen tile,
humming hymnals all the while
and asking, “One lump, dear, or two?”,
but her red hair is turning grey.
My...
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“A person doesn’t have to live in the South to want
to share good food...”
– Carlton Riley Smith
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“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It’s the sensual texture of things here.
It’s the wood smoke...”
– Willie Morris
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“Through the smoke and the racket of the noisy
Chicago bar float Louisiana...”
– Langston Hughes
“The atoms of my heart were forged in the Great Fire, and in the dark I feel my...”
“Am I moving through time? Or am I still, and time is passing over me? Am I the...”
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ontological obsession in american subculture
Journal Entry: Refuge
In the book Refuge, I am finding an intriguing triangulation between religion, the desert, and the study of death.
Religion and the desert shares an obvious tie: my interest in the Burning Man community. However, I also find it interesting that the narrator notes that all pilgrimages involve the desert in some way…perhaps because it completely exposes you, and you...
homestead discontent
Coming back home after six years is strange.
The schism that geography creates is more than just physical distance. My father smiles at me like I just came home from school, but my bones feel echoes from 1990 and they remind me that I’m only a visitor now. I’m reminded of Spring cleaning to CCR and Journey tunes (when my mother was still young and vibrant), and of how I used to be so...
