an example of one of my newer hobbies:

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My friend Charmaine from the Tallboys is going to be giving lessons every Tuesday at Conor Byrne, before the old time social. (7-8ish). Come dance with me!

and oh yeah, last night i only had ONE $3 Bloody Mary. yeah, self-control!

riding doubles with kevin.. and all of the sudden the sky lites up so bright. fireworks over lake union. and the golden weeping willows to our right, and when we turn left down my street, the syncopated thunder follows us to my back door. as kevin says, "surreal, like a scene from Amelieit was a very very lovely evening ( Read more... )

the Stranger I SAW U ( Read more... )

What else is it but magic, that chasm ( Read more... )

as if
someone just handed me
a bouquet
made solely,
entirely,
of the absence
of the word:
Abundance.
Thereby hand-
ing me
everything!

O, to Lack!

I too am made
(mostwholey) of that.

If grief could burn out
Like a sunken coal,
The heart would rest quiet,
The unrent soul
Be still as a veil;
But I have watched all night

The fire grow silent,
The grey ash soft:
And I stir the stubborn flint
The flames have left,
And grief stirs, and the deft
Heart lies impotent.

Philip Larkin

Scheming in the Snow, Jack Gilbert ( Read more... )

Michiko Nogami (1946-1982), Jack Gilbert

Is she more apparent because she is not
anymore forever? Is her whiteness more white
because she was the color of pale honey?
A smokestack making the sky more visible.
A dead woman filling the whole world. Michiko
said, "The roses you gave me kept me awake
with the sound of their petals falling."

The White Heart of God, Jack Gilbert ( Read more... )