A whole week has passed since the convention. My house is empty, its just Xavier and I and he is fast asleep at the moment. Jay has gone back to work, the kids back to school, Casey back to Uralla and Jax and Glen and kids back to Broken Hill. I had quite a little clan all shoved in our little home. It made me realize how much I love having people ( Read more... )

Im cringing...looking back on some of my poems that I posted here in their draft form, though I didnt realize they were in draft form at the time but oh my, a year and...some later and Im thinking, Karen you just tried so damn hard to sound poetic that you sounded...like you were trying hard! So now Im older, perhaps a little more experienced ( Read more... )

Heavy boots ( Read more... )

You are molten lights ( Read more... )

Who’d have thought ( Read more... )

Bustop metaphor for life

The threatening clouds have spilled

and darkness has enclosed its boundaries

leaving me idle on a bench

patient - not waiting for the bus.

I play with time

and the sanctioned graffiti that whispers

‘you want me’...‘you need me’

And my thoughts jump to credit cards bills,

Life...and the thoughtlessness of pigeons

as ( Read more... )

A monotone of glaring shields catch the peak hour light ( Read more... )

a smile begins east
and gathers the day's sunlight
to die in distrust

I started a new job almost two weeks ago. Im now officially a highschool janitor. Two hours an afternoon of vacuuming and cleaning and I love it. I have a sneaking suspicion that my boss is a witness, though we havent had a change to talk properly as I was thrown in at the deep end. All the positions had been filled but when someone didnt rock up ( Read more... )

I was sitting in LAX, on the floor in the corner, reading...excellent book actually, it followed the life of Arnold Hitler, a Harvard linguist whose father met his mother when as an American soldier in WW11, he blew off her leg with a hand grenade, she was a half Jew who had been gang raped by Germans days before. Arnold grew up to marry a Nazi/ ( Read more... )