Sometimes I wander into the NSCC library and check out magazines for no reason. The last time I was in, I checked out an issue of Poetry Northwest. I found a couple poems that I liked.
Aperture
Even though it was only last night
I keep turning to the image of you
leaning in to kiss me
as [...]
In keeping with my tradition of posting strange things during finals week
(because I never post strange things otherwise)
here is a poem I wrote last week. It is called “Cork”.
WTF: I dreamed about cork last night.
I saw how it forms naturally,
and what it looks like before it is carved.
It falls from pine trees
in the [...]
We made it to North Palm Beach within a minimum of flight-related mishaps, and probably the maximum amount of sanity retained for any nine-hour aerial adventure.
This morning I stepped outside onto the warm bricks and wrote a haiku:
Mockingbirds, stray cat
Lizards scurry underfoot
Today will be hot.
And here is a video of our contrail shadow and a [...]
I was just at the local tiny branch of the Seattle Library picking up some books I had on hold, and I happened to see a collection of audio recordings of poetry by Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash, and Phyllis McGinley. I checked it out because I wanted to hear them read their own poetry.
So, [...]
I’ll preface this by saying that I’m now in school full time studying to become a Medical Assistant (more about that later, but basically this means that in my first quarter I am studying all anatomy/physiology/pathology).
So I was reading the oncology chapter last night, and while I was reading and sort of having a panic [...]
Dear Internet Diary,
Not much has been happening lately. The leaves are falling all at once, now… I have been raking them into piles over the garden beds. I have been feeling sick from a fibromyalgia flare-up for the last 3 days. This makes me want to throw things.
I have been thinking [...]
Yesterday I was walking home after work and enjoying being out in the early evening. I took photos with my phone because I wanted to be able to remember my walk home on Election Day. The clouds and the dusk were so portentous and beautiful looking. (I kind of want to incorporate [...]
It’s a quiet, cloudy Sunday, and thus a great day for ruminative logorrhea… but the uh… articulate, expressive, silver-tongued; persuasive, strong, forceful, powerful, potent, well-expressed, effective, lucid, vivid, graphic; smooth-tongued, glib ANTONYM inarticulate river of my blogorrific prose runs dry; I’m holding my breath and shutting down my mind, saving my cycles for Election Day…
Hold [...]
You mustn’t think me an Amazon whore if I link to their products in my posts, when I’m reviewing books I’ve read, etc. It is true, I am an affiliate through this site, and would love added income, but Richard also works for THEM now, so… it feels a little less weird.
If [...]
So look, I have been thinking about starting a web comic, but I have been feeling concerned about how my sense of humor is so weird that it’s probably not even funny to a lot of people, and I’ve sort of made my peace with that– and I also always end up thinking about XKCD [...]