words; images

zen and suffering part forever

December 23, 2025

it is impossible to get it clean enough

December 20, 2025

salmonberry bushes at rest

December 14, 2025

the response isn’t what i wanted so i delete it and wait to forget that it ever happened

December 12, 2025

loosely, lightly, years ago, and again, now

December 9, 2025

thirty three miles with twenty nine hundred feet of elevation gain

December 7, 2025

rain dimples harbor

December 3, 2025December 20, 2025

i supposedly “want” to help but really i’d rather sleep in the arms of the infinite

November 30, 2025December 14, 2025

rather watch cross country national championship

November 26, 2025December 9, 2025

unplugged from shore power, all i hear is groan of tie line, shriek of bird

November 21, 2025December 7, 2025

cortisol and calories in excess

November 19, 2025December 7, 2025

rock for rock

November 13, 2025December 7, 2025

compulsively searching for sales and markdowns and deals

November 11, 2025December 7, 2025

a storehouse of habit and pattern

November 10, 2025December 7, 2025

inherent and in-born

August 7, 2025December 7, 2025

the unexpected mistake of neuroprotective substances and strategies

July 31, 2025November 19, 2025

salt water is a composition of people and other beings not-yet or no-longer here

July 27, 2025November 19, 2025

they’re asking $299 so i offer $75 and wait to see what they say

July 20, 2025November 10, 2025

not regretting the interaction but not not regretting the interaction either

July 18, 2025August 7, 2025

once, i lived well, was loved, and beautiful

July 12, 2025July 31, 2025

minus tide on a coast with no math

July 11, 2025July 27, 2025

nine different forms of magnesium taken before bed

July 1, 2025July 27, 2025

saying “it’s crazy” about things that are actually quite normal

June 27, 2025July 18, 2025

menthol crystals dissolved in fat bring fat tears to cheeks

June 23, 2025July 18, 2025

neck tattoo and clear-framed glasses

June 18, 2025July 12, 2025

unrequired conversations in required settings

June 16, 2025July 11, 2025

freelance photographer glancing at digital wristwatch in midst of casual-yet-business meeting

June 8, 2025July 11, 2025

the etymological root of “human” is “earth”

June 4, 2025July 11, 2025

stonefence serenade

May 30, 2025July 11, 2025

slowly walking through an open expanse looking for an opening

May 21, 2025June 18, 2025

the repayment amount is more than expected on account of unaccounted interest

May 10, 2025June 18, 2025

trying to swim to the far shore while gripping a still-attached limb

April 22, 2025June 10, 2025

creative justifications for underemployment

April 19, 2025June 10, 2025

trinities, holy and otherwise

April 14, 2025June 10, 2025

broken glass for breakfast; containers that do not contain

April 11, 2025May 10, 2025

round, smooth, shaped like an egg

April 9, 2025April 22, 2025

aggregated behavioral characteristics of species made of wind

April 7, 2025April 19, 2025

of holes and heeling

April 5, 2025April 14, 2025

hydraulic crane on back of flatbed dually pickup truck

March 29, 2025April 14, 2025

from one fifty to three hundred due in part to past periods of exogenous excess

March 26, 2025April 14, 2025

discussing the ages and behaviors of various others who are not currently present

March 23, 2025April 9, 2025

not an illness so much as a disorder

March 20, 2025April 7, 2025

no longer wear the watch

March 15, 2025April 7, 2025

the inherent joy of the renunciate

March 6, 2025March 29, 2025

astrid (a)

February 28, 2025March 26, 2025

turn it on and then pause it

February 23, 2025March 26, 2025

currently in the lead for dumbest culture and country of all-time

February 20, 2025May 14, 2025

humpback whales in winter

February 11, 2025March 20, 2025

boom bap in a land of banjo and fiddle

February 7, 2025March 20, 2025

twelfth night of the waxing moon

February 3, 2025March 15, 2025

everyone you know is unknown

February 1, 2025February 11, 2025

waiting for the error to work itself out

January 28, 2025February 7, 2025

float to firmament to float

January 20, 2025February 3, 2025

pop the trunk and let the roof recline

January 16, 2025February 3, 2025

metal meat mineral atop stone stiff still in a bending wind

January 12, 2025February 3, 2025

well-practiced at playing it cool

January 9, 2025January 28, 2025

a population of painted wooden approximations

December 31, 2024January 20, 2025

you know her name though have never been introduced

December 29, 2024January 16, 2025

regional dance culture marked by body movements replicating staccato tap of snare drum

December 27, 2024January 12, 2025

a week on a psychiatric floor so as to plump yourself with proper hydration

December 23, 2024January 12, 2025

unnaceptable levels of gluten

December 22, 2024January 9, 2025

joy expressing as sorrow

December 19, 2024January 9, 2025

devotion as a practice of letting be

December 18, 2024December 27, 2024

sitting three feet from me

December 15, 2024December 27, 2024

the dissolution that comes from salt that smells of sulfur

December 13, 2024December 22, 2024

stalk still and swaying

December 8, 2024December 19, 2024

it’s a used shirt so it wears the scent of someone else

December 6, 2024December 18, 2024

glutamate receptor agonist

November 29, 2024December 18, 2024

the first and the last both begin with the letter B

November 22, 2024December 18, 2024

surprisingly empty, given the context (sunday morning, not actively pouring rain). to you, surprisingly empty.

November 18, 2024December 6, 2024

no athletic scholarships on offer

November 14, 2024December 6, 2024

decaf coffee and mechanical calls to stop the killing

November 9, 2024December 6, 2024

election day in hell

November 6, 2024December 6, 2024

i hurt my back by taking too deep a breath, though maybe it was my heart becoming detached

November 4, 2024November 22, 2024

i am of the nature of irrepressible change

November 2, 2024November 22, 2024

sharing interests with the disinterested

October 26, 2024November 14, 2024

off-season in a tourist town

October 22, 2024November 14, 2024

tide makes no attempts

October 20, 2024November 14, 2024

you called me but i did not hear the phone ring

September 22, 2024November 2, 2024

you’d like to wear the light yellow shirt but don’t like how it fits your body so you don’t

September 17, 2024November 2, 2024

when i travel i use the name ‘kim’ as it is easier to say

September 12, 2024November 2, 2024

intentional ingestion of destabilizing materials

September 11, 2024November 2, 2024

early onset memory loss

August 25, 2024November 2, 2024

singing and dancing in a tiny airport

August 8, 2024November 2, 2024

nothing to fear, nothing to doubt

August 3, 2024November 2, 2024

the movement appears erratic but it is not

July 25, 2024November 2, 2024

the second day

July 19, 2024November 2, 2024

four inches of frosting

July 12, 2024November 2, 2024

several thousand bodies disembark ships to spend a few hours on land looking for food

July 10, 2024November 2, 2024

the sky is clear. the blanket is thick and gray

July 6, 2024November 2, 2024

tidal patterns of a dry sea

July 4, 2024November 2, 2024

you’ve got to create someone inside of you who will understand

June 23, 2024April 11, 2025

as heaven spins, i fall into bedlam

June 18, 2024November 2, 2024

behind me, silence. in front of me, silence.

June 16, 2024November 2, 2024

leaving a trail of low green light

June 13, 2024November 2, 2024

sky burial

June 7, 2024November 2, 2024

a direct descendant of extinction

June 5, 2024November 2, 2024

apricots in snow

June 2, 2024November 2, 2024

spent the weekend making things near no one will know exist

May 29, 2024November 2, 2024

a nod to yesterday, hands held with today

May 27, 2024November 2, 2024