words; images

teeth are for rich people

May 20, 2022

a form empties itself; a self forms from emptiness

May 16, 2022

the self-consciousness of watching yourself

May 13, 2022

the sun is bright and standing still, it’s alright

May 9, 2022

i don’t climb mountain, mountain climbs me

May 3, 2022

like your friend who gets the sugar cereal and you stay the night at their house and at your home all you get is corn flakes

April 30, 2022

the water tastes like stone and turns our skin softly crystalline when we sweat

April 28, 2022

i won a free pair of shoes at a sporting goods store in Boston because my customer service skills are so undeniable

April 25, 2022

with the increase in daylight caffeine becomes less possible

April 21, 2022

depression is mostly just a repetition of pattern

April 20, 2022

i watched the person walk into the coffee shop, return with two coffees, get back into the vehicle, and drive away

April 17, 2022

i wore glasses and then contacts and then nothing at all

April 13, 2022

it’s sunny outside so people stay away

April 10, 2022

the land was sold to another buyer so the dream of farming it remains a seed

April 8, 2022

they tore out all the trees to make a new ramp yet here they are using the old one

April 5, 2022

i write to her but am not capable of seeing her name so quickly delete her reply

April 2, 2022

the dog takes itself for a walk

March 31, 2022

gold hammers and whitewalls

March 27, 2022

had i known you were bringing a terrified teenager, i likely would have worn different pants

March 23, 2022

forty in less than a day

March 22, 2022

it gets a little lonely in the expansive evening

March 18, 2022

some people forget where they live so they put flags on their vehicles to remind them

March 14, 2022

social media taught me that i am human

March 12, 2022

the next day we nearly slid your gold Toyota Camry off a thickly mudded road

March 10, 2022

humans imagine that other animals feel like they do

March 5, 2022

Valentines Day in the Double Deuce

March 4, 2022

the previous record for rain was just smashed by more than quadruple

February 23, 2022

i am not afraid of virtual reality

February 18, 2022

the parasite inside me is hidden but rarely is it unseen

February 11, 2022

“that’s about all i can do without losing my mind”

February 3, 2022

drink lemon balm tea every day and take walks

January 30, 2022

writing emails to people who are people

January 26, 2022

it can be difficult to make friends when you are a know-it-all

January 20, 2022

ice on a Silver Bay sidewalk; a heart of spruce and pine

January 18, 2022

there’s a 3% fee on every donation but the kindness of it comes through quietly unfettered

January 14, 2022

the lid is pink and the container is glass and inside it, the ginger is yellow and dry

January 13, 2022

the last time i saw that man he shared with me his cocaine and fish

January 10, 2022

usual cold

January 7, 2022January 20, 2022

a looped piano by a human named Emily

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022

a group of ravens with plumage puffed to the cold ate garbage unabashedly and stared at me as i got into a car

December 31, 2021December 31, 2021

a dehumidifier turns off; an exhale into silence

December 28, 2021

i had a baby with a woman who makes enough money playing abstract electronic music so that i don’t have to get a job and can put the baby in a sling or a pouch and walk around with it all the time

December 24, 2021

winter on the docks

December 19, 2021

“you should get one. it’s a great place for those kind of self-oriented musings.”

December 16, 2021

i’ve seen this film at least a dozen times but tomorrow will be only the second time seeing it on the big screen

December 13, 2021

Winter in the archipelago

December 11, 2021

the room is silent save for all the heaviness of breath

December 10, 2021

i can’t title this exactly as i want to as it might give too much away and i may pay both a literal and figurative price (meter reader walks the dock and i note the time)

December 6, 2021

you can try to catch the fish so long as you take the barb from the hook

December 3, 2021December 3, 2021

animals and their animals

December 2, 2021

a deer neck in a plastic bag, still plenty of meat on it

November 29, 2021

sometimes it’s hard to stay asleep in the presence of all this swelling

November 27, 2021

the animal wants badly to be pet but is too afraid to get close enough to allow it

November 25, 2021

“i’m starting out my day…with a chopper”

November 21, 2021

the heart hangs from the rafters, it is blue and in need of a welding

November 18, 2021

there are so few reasons, really.

November 16, 2021

after slipping several times, i’ve learned to step cautiously into the floating morning

November 13, 2021November 13, 2021

there are two colors in my head

November 11, 2021

a series of temporary homes

November 6, 2021

yesterday i rode my bike to a spring and filled a plastic jug full of its water

November 4, 2021November 4, 2021

it’s not stealing it’s borrowing so i borrow a hose from down the dock to fill freshwater into leaking freshwater tank, a good portion of which will leak and bilge pump out into the sea

November 2, 2021

a lull between strokes of wind; late Fall in the archipelago

October 28, 2021October 29, 2021

we exchanged a message a piece and then took ourselves back to ghost

October 25, 2021

the morning is cold and moody. it hails and rains and glows in a muted marigold.

October 24, 2021

she’s too young which means of course that you are too old and still you are full of steam and only wish yourself water

October 22, 2021

oblivion in october

October 18, 2021

walking home through the woods from the post office i pass an old coworker in a kayak and talk too loudly and scare away the birds he was quietly paddling to go see

October 17, 2021

most all of it mostly feels like trick, like sleight of hand, like last night’s dream; in an airport, unaware of where i’m going, but knowing i am to go

October 15, 2021

i realized a wire had become disconnected from the bilge pump and that by touching the two wires together the pump again worked and i don’t think i’ve ever felt more proud in my life

October 13, 2021

farmers market in early-mid-september in bucolic college town along the shores of a lake and the sun is on fire but no does not burn

October 11, 2021

katlian bay in early september; it is a rainforest, it does as it is called to do

October 9, 2021

all of the trees are straight and tall and their tops bow gently to the sky

October 8, 2021

instead of depression, dowels; sunshine in October

October 6, 2021

i talk to my friend about getting drunk and love, he stops responding once we move from drunkenness to love

October 3, 2021

i roamed around a tiny island town and took photos in a morning of late Fall

October 2, 2021

if i don’t floss and brush my teeth early in the evening, i’ll just end up eating and eating long after my caloric needs have been met

September 30, 2021

a woman who despised me for the need she had, first introduced me to a writer who has stayed with me long after that woman stopped returning my emails

September 28, 2021October 2, 2021

i think the gold colored wool shirt i am wearing is cool but my lumpy body, decidedly less so

September 26, 2021

on sunny days i am a loser

September 25, 2021

i am unsure how it feels but am certain that i have returned

September 23, 2021

an airplane over the american west; feeling uneasy with calm

September 22, 2021September 24, 2021

your phone says you are in, or at least from, western washington, but not seattle

September 21, 2021

and today is fruit of 3 barren years; sobriety in a time of plenty

September 20, 2021

my friend tells me that the oddities of my titles makes it difficult to catalogue; the houses of our names are many-chambered

September 19, 2021

i’m supposed to ask permission to use people’s names when i write but how often have i done what i am supposed to?

September 17, 2021

halibut and kale over propane flame

September 12, 2021

they are heading to Nevada so i take them to the airport and return to the quiet kindness of their home they share with me

September 10, 2021

all i do is kill time until i can eat again

September 4, 2021

they both started out about the same but one deepened to near black and the other pale’d itself to translucent pink rose

September 2, 2021

katlian street in late august and a heathered black wool zip neck, too warm, carried in a curled palm

September 1, 2021

euphemism and lechery like lukewarm tea like blazing 60 degree heat like fog bank rolling in expecting welcome and receiving only up-turned hoods

August 30, 2021

i spoke to Zach about building shelving and counter with wood, he, telling me, “the moisture content of the wood will help determine what can be built”

August 28, 2021August 28, 2021

eliason harbor in late august, a few days past year’s last minus tide

August 26, 2021

Andrew picks me up in his truck and we go out to the boat launch to launch his boat and he pulls gear in search of halibut while i stand there and take photos and sway on sea legs through my mind

August 23, 2021

last i saw Trevor he was walking in the rain without a raincoat, now i see him on the back deck of Mike’s old wooden troller and it is still raining but he is dry

August 20, 2021August 20, 2021

having just replaced the brake pads on my bicycle’s mechanical disc brakes, i now needn’t apply as much pressure when i want to slow down

August 18, 2021November 30, 2021

while the man was swollen with excess fat he was also unloading a truck and while all of this happened the truck idly ran

August 14, 2021

your friend brings his brother to your boat and this brother forgets his water bottle so returns minutes after leaving and you give him the water bottle and also a bag of trash to take to the parking lot dumpsters

August 12, 2021

the planet is getting hot and ya that might be “bad” for many species including humans if we are to say “extinction” and “bad” are synonymous but to the planet a desert is no more bad or good than a glacier and this is what you call luck

August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

three bears shot to death and plastic cans cannot possibly contain all that we desire and then tire of

August 8, 2021