And I in my Petticoats

And I in my petticoats

And ignoble coats

Of gold and brass and tangerine

Harlequin dancer bells in my hair

Rings around my fingers

Tend to my summer garden

Of frailest snow drops and baby’s breath

To sturdy sunflowers

I look blindly to the sun

Shield my watering eyes

That burn with autumn smoke

There is a dark ( Read more... )

It's almost eleven o'clock on Halloween and having just gotten home from work I find I'm enjoying my few free moments here when the household is out partying. I have been sick with flu these past few days and the silence, disturbed only by me, is welcoming. I was invited out, twice, and both times I graciously declined, "No thank you, I rather feel ( Read more... )

I was greeted with incredible news this morning when I popped onto my roommate's laptop - the sister of the dear aunt who died last year is moving back into town to go to school. I got to spend some time with her recently and she reminds me so much of my Aunt Christie sometimes it took my breath away. But my Aunt Megan is very much her own person, ( Read more... )

I'm writing a novel. It's, much to my excitement and embarrassment, genre fiction. Now, normally I would completely avoid this type of novel, it isn't a classic, a great, I won't read it. I'm very snotty when it comes to books and films. But this little project is so much fun to work with, I have a character I like and relate to (she is, of course ( Read more... )

There is a part of me that isn't human. A part of me that aches to "go home." To wherever my soul comes from. I have never felt like a person. I've never really felt like I belonged on Earth. This makes me wonder if that part of me that isn't human had a purpose on the plane that I'm no longer on, like my soul wants to go back to work. But I'm here ( Read more... )

It's my birthday today. I couldn't get the tattoo I wanted...and my driver's license expired. But aside from that I have had a fantastic day. What an odd age to turn, nineteen. It's a bit soon in the day to be reflecting but since my day's been good I wanted to express how pleased  I feel, how I can tell that from the sleepy trees come birthday ( Read more... )

Tonight I played chess for my virginity and lost. Though I disappointed the boys and wouldn't let them near me, and it was all fun and games anyways (they said); and so I kept my virginity. It was an evening of pizza and cigarettes and Coke and games and laughter. But I can't help but feel a little shaken, a little anxious. Not only was it ( Read more... )

I have a blond friend. He's taller than I am, which is unfair as up until recently I was taller than him, he plays music on the uke and tells the same stories over and over again.We love him dearly and tomorrow morning he returns to the greyhound from hell that will take him back to Tennessee from whence he came. I wrote him a poem that I won't ( Read more... )

I want to be naked in bed ( Read more... )

I feel the itch I get when I've been in one place for too long. Long ago I felt this itch in my body, like something inside was too big for the rest of me, and I'm feeling it again now. I love the roommate I have, he's good people. I think it would simply be less stressful if we moved to our own place now with our two other friends; but they're ( Read more... )