Went swimming at the pool down the street, part way I remembered my forgotten bike and thought of the young kids I knew who had biked to the pool, and how I could be like them with towels thrown over their smooth shoulders riding bikes too small. And that is how things are now, I do things, beautiful things, but not as well as I'd like ( Read more... )

I am still waiting for a box of film for my finicky camera. Across from my back door, across the road, is a stone staircase that goes down to a waterfall and pond with a dinner plate size snapping turtle. Down the road a little bit is a stone creek bed that overlooks an empty waterfall, or empty but for the thinnest rivulet. It is a good place ( Read more... )

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"I admire compression, lightness, agility, all rare in this loose world."

I am moving from one room to the other in a very cold house. A space heater tells the thermostat that all is well and I walk shivering in the hallways. The room I am moving from is all windows, wood floor set out from the rest of the house, hovering off of the foundations. I suit up to go into it, gloves and hat, ready to gather fossil socks and ( Read more... )

It was maybe today, three years ago, that I walked into a car and made Bobby laugh because I was in love. I think of that moment every time I listen to the Silver Jews song "I remember you ( Read more... )

I spend time looking at the International Fashion weeks, a festival which has just bounced from New York to London, and is shortly due at Milan and Paris. There be monsters, and fashion which imitates the way flesh is peeled by scalpel, there are proms, big and little, there the future and the past lie, spread flatly upon flat chests. Every ( Read more... )

I wake up under blankets, all afright. I have been wasting my time? Day warms me up but my nose stays cold and silvery. Maybe I have made mistakes! Maybe I won't know what to do!

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I am, even now after spending a month in Southern Mississippi, resisting the compulsion to don a jacket before going outside at night.