when the shadow catches up with you
and nips at your heels at every turn
don't try to hold your breath until it dissipates
it feeds on the vacuum left behind
when peace of mind evacuates
search out instead a spot of light
a pinprick a smidgeon a bit a blot
keep your right toe steady on the mark
breathe deep and drag it with you
inch by inch step by step out of the dark
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Another New Year Ahead
I don't think they'll make a movie out of this blog. There's not enough to hang a plot on or characters to contemplate or recipes for success. Just a note here and there about things on my mind. Today it's about my birthday and not feeling old enough to be the age I've turned.
Having two New Years makes resolutions revisions more tenable so here they are, new and revised. I guess you'd have to know what the originals were to know which is which. Sorry, that was a misplaced post.
Resolutions for my birthday:
That's more than enough, don't you think?
Having two New Years makes resolutions revisions more tenable so here they are, new and revised. I guess you'd have to know what the originals were to know which is which. Sorry, that was a misplaced post.
Resolutions for my birthday:
- have another birthday
- spend more time with my family
- finish my second book
- master punctuation
- master two new weave structures
- practice yoga three times a week
That's more than enough, don't you think?
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
"Believe that a farther shore is reachable from here..." Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy
when we set sail at first we did not know
what our birth would set in motion
how the water would rock our cradle
where the current would carry our dreams
what our birth would set in motion
who would bear witness of our journey
how the cradle would be thrown upon the rocks
when the sails would become worn and frayed
where the current would carry our dreams
how reachable the far shore from here
who would follow the north star to old beginnings
what witness would the oracle then believe
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
All Grown Up
The boys are all men now
birthday cakes and caps and gowns
baby faces gave way to whiskers
high school crushes now man and wife
come and go as you please
entering and exiting
endings and beginnings
I love you mom they say it
whenever they go
wherever they go
I love you, too
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Fibroweave and Teflon Failure
The darn thing is warped
the loom that is and the bread pan, too
ninety ends were lost somewhere
between Christmas and New Years
anything can be fixed with help from ebay
buttermilk bread and banana wheat
falls with a thump out of the pan
that hasn't failed like the last one
no recall notice for teflon failure
stick-to-it-mess in the old bread pan
like just what is needed to sley
the heddles and the reed when fiber work
becomes fibroweave any new patterns
can whet the appetite for more
the loom that is and the bread pan, too
ninety ends were lost somewhere
between Christmas and New Years
anything can be fixed with help from ebay
buttermilk bread and banana wheat
falls with a thump out of the pan
that hasn't failed like the last one
no recall notice for teflon failure
stick-to-it-mess in the old bread pan
like just what is needed to sley
the heddles and the reed when fiber work
becomes fibroweave any new patterns
can whet the appetite for more
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