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denman and pendrell having just broken fast

February 4, 2023

i am indoors but the air smells of rosemary and sage

February 2, 2023

you ask if they have something sweet and they shake their head and blink painted blue eyes and say no

February 1, 2023

floating while tied

January 31, 2023

understanding comes in midsentence

January 30, 2023

it was canada and then usa and now canada again but soon again usa

January 27, 2023

a colony of gut bacteria demands glucose

January 26, 2023

he was nervous about his health, was a bigoted vegetarian, and dosed himself with herb teas

January 24, 2023

of insects and mammals

January 23, 2023

i think there’s something he wants to say but he doesn’t say it and i don’t ask

January 22, 2023

well, yes, i remember all of you.

January 17, 2023

we missed the opening band because we went west when we should have went east

January 13, 2023

the entirety of the vessel is held by one line

January 11, 2023

the obsessions of youth

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023

a bigot in a bank parking lot

January 7, 2023

we always look fresh

January 4, 2023

a body in space

December 31, 2022

i have not held a hand now for years

December 29, 2022

tied while floating

December 27, 2022

the never setting sun

December 24, 2022

all friends are best

December 22, 2022

spinning while sitting still

December 20, 2022

sunday morning in december on a southern island in alaska

December 18, 2022

a series of differently sized doors

December 17, 2022

life is most of the time intolerable, i said to a friend, while we both laughed and smiled

December 14, 2022December 14, 2022

a tiny town and its news, or, the brief magnificence

December 11, 2022

a man said “what are you doing” and i said “taking photos”

December 10, 2022

if you don’t quit smoking your curves will never grow

December 8, 2022

since putting new toner in the old printer its printing squeal sounds different

December 6, 2022

the beauty of farming

December 4, 2022

the woodstove is tiny yet still it gives heat

December 1, 2022

my mans tells me to just do stuff so i watch wind blow water into waves

November 30, 2022

up a hill and into the wind

November 27, 2022

thanksgiving day and the wind cannot subdue its enthusiasm for us

November 24, 2022

when you stop trying to move it it will move without effort

November 23, 2022

80 years go by like a cloud

November 22, 2022

it was somewhat cold so i wore a pair of lightly insulated pants

November 21, 2022

visiting is preferable to living

November 20, 2022November 20, 2022

i wear shorts in preparation for the heat, look at all these idiots in their trousers

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022

the 1st choice was closed so we settled on the 2nd

November 15, 2022

the sky a pale purple and still awake

November 13, 2022

another classic game of chicken-or-the-egg

November 12, 2022

waiting for the bulgur to cook and i ought to be chopping vegetables

November 10, 2022

i do not celebrate colonists, though i am one

November 8, 2022November 8, 2022

then, you just practice

November 5, 2022

eat fewer foods with high concentrations of purine and oxalic acid

November 4, 2022December 2, 2022

a diet low in oxalates

November 2, 2022November 2, 2022

my man is lonely in a hotel while i am nothing and nowhere and in bliss

October 29, 2022

a failure of edges is a success of acceptance

October 24, 2022

the new spot is only a few hundred feet from the old but still its superiority is vast

October 22, 2022October 22, 2022

do nothing, feel everything

October 21, 2022

there is a difference between thoughtless and not thinking

October 20, 2022

revelry in a rainforest

October 19, 2022October 19, 2022

this vastness, a window onto eternity

October 18, 2022

they play in montreal in january, if you wanted to see them live

October 17, 2022October 17, 2022

a stiff neck and a few hours of sleep

October 15, 2022

i’d like to be peaceful but still i broke the caulking gun when it didn’t work as i wanted it to

October 14, 2022October 14, 2022

fine lines and spirals

October 12, 2022

low bush blueberries in the high alpine

October 8, 2022

when i wear women’s clothing i remember that we are made mostly of water

October 7, 2022

maybe if it sits for a while new growth will slow the leak

October 6, 2022October 6, 2022

the back is wooden which is nice as the sweat won’t soak in

October 4, 2022

i’ve been told more than once that i’m too negative

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022

i thought about it for months and then it took only a few minutes to do

October 2, 2022October 2, 2022

i’m sorry, but i do not remember you

October 1, 2022

not so much trying to understand as trying to do no harm

September 29, 2022September 29, 2022

i enjoy eating pizza, and many other foods

September 25, 2022September 25, 2022

deep down south where my body has never been

September 24, 2022

the guardrail takes a solid light and gives it a flickering

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022

i’m supposed to be mindful so i online shop

September 22, 2022September 22, 2022

the first day of september

September 21, 2022September 21, 2022

if you don’t drink it quickly enough it will be warm before it’s done

September 20, 2022September 20, 2022

mayonnaise on french fries

September 19, 2022September 19, 2022

a crowded intersection in northern Vermont

September 18, 2022

in which people are tricked into thinking hoarding resources is anything but mental illness

September 17, 2022

to the bacteria inside of us we are the entire known universe

September 15, 2022September 15, 2022

the music across the channel sounded closer than the music in the room

September 14, 2022

to ride a bike in a rainforest

September 14, 2022September 14, 2022

ya well what else is there to do on a tuesday

September 13, 2022

a small town is affected by tides

September 12, 2022September 12, 2022

in the Fall i go to northern Chicago suburbs to watch division 3 football games that ended decades ago

September 11, 2022September 11, 2022

i don’t care what you think unless it is about me

September 10, 2022

these flowers were cut long ago, yet look at how beautiful they still are.

September 9, 2022September 9, 2022

i had dinner with a friend and then nightmares about it later

September 8, 2022September 8, 2022

an unhurried expression of phenomena

September 6, 2022September 6, 2022

the many conveyances of the intrepid time traveler

September 5, 2022September 5, 2022

i couldn’t tell if she could see me but then she waved

September 4, 2022September 4, 2022

my vote is for the street to be closed all year

September 3, 2022September 3, 2022

the sound we make when we do not make sound

September 2, 2022September 2, 2022

it is not so much piety as it is an inability of words to describe it

September 1, 2022September 1, 2022

it moves all by itself

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022

i struggled to do the primary function of my job, which was a bit embarrassing

August 30, 2022August 30, 2022

four more hours until it is time to eat and already there is hunger

August 29, 2022August 29, 2022

what i talk about when i talk about talking

August 27, 2022August 27, 2022

morning on cannery street

August 25, 2022August 25, 2022

when people ask me “where did you grow up?” i think they are just calling me fat

August 24, 2022August 24, 2022

the north pacific is strewn with islands

August 23, 2022August 23, 2022

the hierarchy of animals

August 21, 2022August 21, 2022

a few women from Honolulu came in so i put down my fork and picked up the thread of laughter that they offered me

August 18, 2022August 18, 2022

she told me about “misfits and dreamers” and i knew immediately that i could never match her wisdom

August 16, 2022August 16, 2022