Archive for October, 2010
PoemPost: Cleave Yourself to Love
Sunday, October 24th, 2010
as if your deepest desires
even the wants you’ve been afraid
to speak out loud
were waiting for you at the breakfast table
Hindsight
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Nothing like a little nostalgia to put you right over the edge! All the sweet moments with past lovers. The beginnings and the endings brilliantly sketched out. The middles notable only in their absence. The nothing-to-say-ness about them spoke volumes. Except for one. Written smack in the middle of my marriage.
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
…one of the performers led the group in a round of Happy Birthday. It was a little more embarrassing than anticipated, but fun.
And then, something unexpected happened…
A Sensexual Beginning Begets An Essensual Ending…
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
On one fine day in Eden, so the story goes, boredom fell upon the garden and all hell broke loose. And in the end, Adam and Eve knew something they shouldn’t have.
Age Matters
Monday, October 11th, 2010
More than the laugh lines I’m acquiring, the gray hairs I’m rinsing out, and the relentlessly-growing children, it is this move towards depth that is revealing an unexpected truth: age does matter.
So Much To Say I Can Hardly Speak
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
The thought finally crept in that I might be done with this phase of feeling. Or perhaps it was boredom. Have you ever gotten bored of yourself? Shook your head and said, “Really…again? I’m doing this one again?”