lately i just want to be running on half a shot of whiskey all the time. this year's almost over & it's time to head out but i'm not sure i'm ready to not be in kalamazoo for quite so long. everything smells just faintly of cigars and everything's fine in kalamazoo.

this summer, i'm learning to play the harmonica.

According to the Bible, Jehovah gave Adam the job of bestowing names on everything. But in Ursula Le Guin's story "She Unnames Them," Eve decides to reverse her mate's work. She yearns to return to a primordial state when the misunderstandings caused by words no longer stand between her and the rest of creation. So she unnames all the animals, from ( Read more... )

trying to starve this sadness, inch by hard-won inch.

lately it just keeps raining in kalamazoo.

let's play the good idea/bad idea game, shall we?

or maybe not.

these things ( Read more... )

k. let's talk about how my hair is blue and it's time for me to get some words on paper.

favorite ghazals, anyone?

february again; these long lonesome days, however happy i might be.

( because i didn't bring my computer home with me )

hey ( Read more... )

so here's the new year, finally. so far it's a little clumsy but quite centered, quite sure of itself, and it seems to be sorting itself out quite nicely as it goes. i found in the course of retrospection the new year's resolutions of 2004, which echo this year's quite strangely; so ( again )