snow-blind (in summer!)
and dulled by desire
I, forged, forgotten, fogged
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Category Archives: blues
As your breath above mine
My mouth tastes like raw egg yolk and the soap I try to wash my hands with has been sitting in its own juices for so long that it comes apart in my hands, oozing. I feel like that soap. So saturated as to have changed my chemical state.
Recipe: 1. Write tangled poetry 2. Watch one David Lynch Movie per day 3. Be patient
All in a Day’s Work
They will tell you these things as you carry their flesh ( beneath lintels, atop mossy paths, over lines )
Tender
I’m beginning to see togetherness as beautiful
An Average Night in Honduras
I offer you music in two different spirits. The first is that of rejoicing, of proclamation – an expression of joy or gratitude – an outpouring. The second is that of invocation – a plea and a call to arms, a desire for the magic of the song to seep into my being and feed me.
This is thrown out in the second spirit.
Nothing to write home about
On a not too distant Friday, I attended a party in a hamlet of sixty people. We drank Radler and ate goulash with thick slices of ham and chunks of white bread. We watched the bocce ball game beneath the full moon, and cheered with the old men when each team scored. We soaked up the magic as they heckled over points and bantered, loud and full of love.
On a Saturday we took a bus to the salt fields and walked along the green sea, stopping at a rocky stretch of shore to find heart shaped stones. I listened to this song until it had melted into the cobblestone streets. I let it wash me into a happy wilt atop my melancholic peninsular paradise. In the evening, we walked along the shoreline and collected a bachelorette party and three vacationing italians. We all drank homemade lemon schnapps and watched the italians teach tango to the bride beneath the streetlamp. Later we drank Gin and Tonics as we listened to a rock & roll cover band at a bar by the sea. A man let us share a table with him. He drank red wine and smoked while informing us in sincere tones that hard work pays off.
On a Sunday, we braved the wind. Inside of a frigid bus stop, we jumped up and down and sang to each other. Escaping from the cold we sat in a gas station coffee shop. She taught me about euros. Bogdan arrived, bright eyed, wearing his clogs and his wild blonde dreadlocks. The smell of cows filled the room upon his entrance. He whisked us away, and we cooked dinner and drank tea and after everyone had gone to bed we spoke about our homes and our insides and the brilliant thing we were embarked upon.
On a Monday, we picked rocks from the potato field.
