Category: wandering mind
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Embrace
Take off my shoes and wade into a rust blood red pool. Not water like water, but a body. Water as a body. A body of tissue under my toes, into my toes. The bottom of a body. The pulse of a heart of water. It ripples like water ripples. Like ribbons. Like breath around…
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aiding poetics
Last night, I washed my face with my orange neutrogena face wash like I always do. Put a mandarin slice of soap in my palm, made the sink water do laps around the drain to warm up, and I polished and I polished and I polished the white suds all over my skin. And I…
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Weekend in review
My stomach keeps asking questions. Questions and statements and judgmental wanderings. muUh-ooh it bubbles. Oh, muyeah? I should eat something to shut it up. Friday after I dropped C off at midnight, I turned Adele up so loud, the bass shifted, rocked and bounced the blood in my body. And I drove over the bridge…
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Whew!
Last night, in my dream, I could curl 29lbs over 30 times. Which if you are a girl means some serious arm muscle, some serious strength. I tried the 17lb dumbbell first because I knew I needed a challenge (I’d been curling 10lbs, 15lbs), but even the 17lb was too light, so I moved up,…
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Talk day
today. is. utterly. boring. and draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaging. And completely dull other than the fact that I have to get up in front of some younger peeps and their parents and a tv camera and try not to stumble on the word “exhibition” after the word “arts” and “Carmody” which is the girl’s name, which feels like…
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When poets become obsessed trackers
I’ve been hunting the fedex man through the online tracking. Like modern day horses and hounds. If I were home, I’d open the door foaming at the mouth and bleary-eyed and maybe holding a pot holder and a butter knife. He’d have no idea what to do with me – except hand over my package…
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Laying down bedrock
I’m a little late for work because I was waiting for a package. And not even a really important package, but one you have to sign for and when you aren’t there they leave you a slip that says they were there and then you have to drive to some creepy warehouse in the dark…