You don’t get it. Not yet. You don’t see it. A loud, exasperating sound comes out with my breath. This is what’s draining me. How many minutes, hours, days of my life have I spent consumed with this – some flippant remark you made and forgot or some deeper truth you must share to make…
The windows are down and the top is back. The dry leaves are flying all around. My hair is loose. It’s flapping into my eyes and mouth and up my nose. I don’t mind. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – my Heartbreakers – are Echoing in my ears. They’re bringing me back to myself. As…
A ten-sided wave has formed around Saturn’s South Pole. Imagine that. Imagine being in the center of that. Never mind. Don’t imagine that. Because if you do, so do I and I’ll be sick. Technically, Saturn’s South Pole looks like a vortex of death anyway, but still… I imagine Odysseus and the sea opening up…
It’s 7:17 a.m., and there’s a praying mantis on my door. At first, I spy this with narrowing eyelids and resolve to clean the porch. Save the door, I think. Let the mantis be. However, the spiders have taken over… I think it with a twist in the side of my mouth. I imagine they…