Monthly Archives: May 2010

* practice my pathetic Spanish speaking skillz… I should be ashamed to call myself a native to Arizona. * practice my guitar enough to be able to say “I play guitar, too” by the end of the season * do … Continue reading →

i fell asleep listening to your voice (that bittersweet lullaby in the night) and woke up screaming in your haunted house before my eyes had time to close. hands roam around the empty space beside me, searching, clutching the thin … Continue reading →

you know some days i just really want to shake you, you’re so delusional. stop pretending this is normal. wake up! this isn’t cute, this isn’t sweet, this isn’t ‘too funny.’ this is a disease. this is losing it. this … Continue reading →

i know we all change, and the changes aren’t bad. but a part of me misses this person and having her more or less to myself. i’m not saying i wish two other kids and all the years of changing … Continue reading →

i see your face is ripped, darling, it’s quite beautiful. the tendrils of loose hair, the wrinkled shirt, the way you slump forward, a really thrilling display of emotion to be critiqued. i applaud you on your decision to capture … Continue reading →

time for splashing into waves skydiving running like mad time to leap up and down time to fly she is screaming screaming screaming and she is not going to stop screaming no pain release fear joy understanding elation revelation rise … Continue reading →

it’s one of those days where every single thing you do is wrong and normally it would be enough to bring you to tears… but instead it is hilariously funny and you laugh until you sob with mirth. and there … Continue reading →

i firmly believe the most difficult things we deal with in life are the things no one else sees. the things that go unmentioned each day but come vividly to life at night in that haze between reality and sleep, … Continue reading →

video cameras record millions of brief shots of the past as i drive away, recent memories fading, dwindling, disappearing in the rear view, old images being neatly framed and hung in my mind. could you do it? leave a part … Continue reading →

So, thanks to one of my favorite bloggers Q, I was given the blogger buddy award… Q is extraordinarily helpful when it comes to my poetry sometimes, and I fully intend to name my daughter after her one day and … Continue reading →