It’s amazing.
We were doing this wine blending seminar at work yesterday with an incredible winemaker and I was thinking of you the whole time.

“Ask yourself what is the most beautiful thing you can do in the moment and then do it.”

“Keep your head down, focus on the moment.”

“Try to find the wines that make each other better together than they were ( Read more... )

“Do you ever feel lonely? I mean, really lonely. No matter what you do or who you’re with, you still feel it. Like you’re walking around and you can feel the whole universe out there, this huge thing, just going and going and going and everyone around you is just knocking into everything and bruising everyone and themselves and you just feel so ( Read more... )

Here I am again, up too late. Thinking about your morning ( Read more... )

-game fish. go fish. throw it back.-

all this time

laid out like bodies of salt water
shattered like sheets of tempered glass.

-bodies. sheets. shattered.-

the tide that keeps taking me back to you. constant, merciless and uninterested ( Read more... )

“all the nights i don’t remember are the ones i can’t forget.”

this blooming want like
tiny tight bubbles floating up to the rim of a glass of champagne.
tickling in my stomach. tingling on my lips.
the thought of your want
a pressing cotton deadline
shoulders taut under a plaid dress shirt.

i want
to pretend to be more drunk than i am
sloshing about glasses of burgundy
laughing knowingly
swollen with wonder, inching ( Read more... )

temperature drops.

beginning of winter as the trees go bare they reveal birds nests among their stripped branches.
previously hidden homes of sticks, leaves, grass, spit. exposed by time, the force of seasons.
i have been in the yard, trudging and pulling through piles of fallen leaves; rake in hand i have given up-left them half-done, undone.

color ( Read more... )

friday night saturday morning.
the patio table is occupied by
boxes for goodwill and empty beer bottles
not enough room in the recycling bin so come sunday
i will venture down the street adding my waste to
someone else's.

after work i am home late and the house is asleep.

selong belanak ( Read more... )

rain and red wine tonight. only a sip left so
i take
smaller
sips.

smoke floats
mind bloats.