october is coming. i sit outside singing a siren song to the wind. something about soon it will be november. i trill into the air and i get a sense that i'm singing too loudly for the unknown ( Read more... )

"in studying human history one finds that humanity goes through cycles of ignorance and enlightenment; chaos and destruction on one hand, and relative safety on the other. now the world, being a very large place, one can find that certain civilisations, bearing certain characteristics, have been able to maintain a state of peace throughout most of ( Read more... )

our ship was lost within the flooded channels of southern georgia. we sailed past the roofs of houses and vanished backyards. i checked the map finally, carefully calculating our latitude and longitude, and found we were twenty miles inland, in a creek bed that had filled up during the storm. i lowered the sails and we proceeded at ten knots, only ( Read more... )

nate helped me to strip the paint ( Read more... )

yah honey we sing corazon
you hear it
and you understand
sleeping
while we sing and dance
our old dance

corazon

the one that got away

corazon

my heart sings in the morning

i caught a cold dark breeze ( Read more... )

First there's robin season, that's not the best season, but robins should be respected as the official heralds of spring. Somewhere around there or concurrently is ant season, when the ants start to get inside, ant season runs all throughout the summer but the season when they first appear is around robin season. Around there is dandelion season, ( Read more... )

I think I just caused a break-up. Ernest (I should have guessed by the name what sort of character he had) was a man who I thought was creepy. It's not just me, the other people who I live with think he's creepy too, controlling and creepy. Desperate. A man of questionable character. I thought he was a snake set to get whatever he could out of Amy ( Read more... )

the day you were born the planets tilted in their orbit and the sun shone, resplendant on the horizon. you were a part of their awesome gravity. and you were a part of the gravity of the gods, who sealed your fate on your palm and in the stars. when the sun shone on your brow on that fine day, or when the moon inscribed its silvery tatoo on the ( Read more... )

thank you old man, for all that you have done ( Read more... )