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it sounds like honey cakes and alpine wooded coves. waking up next to boy with a bit of beard and eating breakfast in bed with him before you go outside to step on crunchy fall leaves on a muted mountain path. wear wool. color: green ( Read more... )

i remember when you laughed about how my hands were dirty. not plagued and upset, but messy from the day and the life. i wonder about the people whose hands might be clean and pristine and if i could know and understand them. if they would be "just fine" or if they would be bright young things, like the kind of people I would want to know ( Read more... )

spendin' money like the way it likes to rain.

sweet illinois honey and milk and orange purple sunsets. i think about you when i'm on the train in the morning. and blue morning glories climbing up my grandma's brick garden walls. its oh so easy to cheat on the urban sprawl.

the subtlety of breezes.

With belabored breath fighting gravity, we charge forward into another bright city dawn. the sun rises high above the roof beams and the alarm blares open blinking morning eyes filled with sleep. i am not going to work tomorrow to assess and track and datasize and come unwound in a mess of numbers and diagnostics. i am going to hope and dream ( Read more... )

i'm home. doing pace homework and watching the rain spill onto my window sill. eating left over cookies from yesterday. trying to figure out if there is anything I can do to say i'm sorry for that big mistake that I made. going over in my head how things might be if you'd forgive me for not knowing how stupid it would be. a mouse on my floor ( Read more... )

Sitting on the back steps of my mother's new farmhouse, I tried to decide if the black clouds rolling across the normally sun soaked fields were going to fuss and hail and turn into a tornado. I sipped tea, and talked aloud about the wind and the incoming raindrops to my dog. When finally we had decided that there was little to worry about, Toto ( Read more... )