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A Sense of Place
Six years, the longest I have ever been in one spot without moving out and on, and still this place does not possess my bones the way it would if I had come of age, or taken my first steps, … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, grounding, locations, personal history, places, sacred, spirituality, vacations
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The Ride Home
Scattered like jewels tossed out across a black crushed velvet plush electric fueled stars winking against an endless backdrop of night their pulsing engines cycling with an urgent rasp their transmissions settled into high ratio sedation controls set to automatic … Continue reading
Pleasure City
Canto I: Next stop, the driver said, smiling through cracked wicked lips, Pleasure City – we huddled, prenatal, wondering – even in the suburbs the legends grew, spread by the Party Planners, the malcontent underbelly of the American Experience, bastard … Continue reading
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Tagged deserts, desperation, gambling, impressions, Las Vegas, loss, surrealism, tourism, vacations
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The Other Shoe Drops
My mother, who turns seventy next year, four days from now is driving from LA, alone across almost two thousand miles (she plans between ten and twelve miles a day) to visit us in New Orleans — she says, for … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, birthdays, California, family, independence, parents, vacations
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Haiku for the Holidays
Long lines and cramped flights, bland food tasting like warm crap: holiday travel. Meeting family, all dwelling on past actions; skin deep interest. More useless gifts, and hours wasted in small talk; No relaxation. So rude and hurried. Must keep … Continue reading
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Tagged California, daily poems, haiku, holidays, Japanese verse forms, vacations
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Looking for patterns in things
If I can find a repeating pattern, a repetitious rhythm that pulses underneath the warp and woof of my life, it is that each time I reconnect with my biological family, it becomes necessary to wipe clean the creative slate … Continue reading
Returning
Ah, my friends, it is good to be home. After a week in southern Californika (which at times seemed like a colony on a far distant planet) in a strange granola world, New Orleans seems like a Mecca for all … Continue reading