i wanted to write about the night last week when i was walking home down 10th street late at night. i was getting sick. it was windy and every surface was reflecting light. my ears were stuffed up, unbalancing everything. it was so quiet, i could hear everything. i could hear the size of the city. i could feel my footsteps and knew they were ( Read more... )

lately i have been noticing tidal pull in toilet bowls ( Read more... )

i drank another cup of coffee because i didn't know what else to do ( Read more... )

today i helped a pigeon who had a plastic bag stuck around his neck. the bag had a tamale in it. it had flown up, and the bag had gotten stuck on the top of a high chain link fence. i climbed up and grabbed him, his greasy feathers were all askew. a guy undid the tight-twisted bag as i held the pigeon. we were congratulated on our bravery by ( Read more... )

when cravings are as perfectly satisfied as i just experienced, it is astonishing ( Read more... )

i wake up early ( Read more... )

the moon is like a giant squashed pie in the east ( Read more... )

facebook. the thing about it. if i posted things i did, observations i made, mine would be as good as anybody's. any feelings of inferiority are acknowledged as fabricated from insecurity, provably wrong. but. i don't want to participate. it's too big, it's too much of a thing. there is too much sharing of sharing, too much washing over. and it ( Read more... )

over the years, my anxiety has evolved so much. it has always tried to disguise itself as something else, something life threatening. a heart attack, anaphylactic shock, a stroke. lately, it has been so subtle. a feeling like part of my brain is missing. a dull ache in my central sulcus, floaty. a near miss on my bike, a moving truck turning ahead ( Read more... )

2012 began, moving into a new house. a new sky house, a story above all the others on the street. i won't be staying there much longer ( Read more... )