“Are there any movies coming out soon that you are excited about?” This is our starter conversation, between my son and I. Given his youth and general easy going nature, he is surprisingly opinionated about movies and will never venture to answer the question first. Now that I think about it, I was very opinionated […]
Transitions I. Anyone else in their pupal stage? Its kind of icky in here, right? It seems like a lot of production, Just to shut down the means of reproduction. It harkens back to my sweaty, toad armored adolescence. So many braces, and sprains, and growing pains. In the fishbowl of my own claustrophobic self-conscious […]
I saved my monies and made one hundred books. Even though that sounds like a lot of books, like I could dive into them and swim around Scrooge McDuck style, it turns out that they can all fit tidily into one small heavy box. Which is kind of a relief actually. I’m just going to […]
Shadow Box Calling forth all my moments The representative The pivotal The ecstasy And the existential Come and submit to an autopsy Of sorts Or maybe just an examination A re-telling And a display Make like a butterfly in a shadow box. Oh winged one Alight just once more Let me admire your splendor And […]
Commitment Issues When I have a day off It worries me And then inevitably I enjoy it too much And then its bitter Like my coffee Microwaved too many times And not ready to commit to a fresh pot. ### Why I Don’t Dust I don’t dust book shelves If books get dusty This means […]
Small Animal Prayers I don’t mourn well in community, But I do it pretty well curled up Like a woolly bear The small animal part of me hopes that if I remain stalwart enough If I maintain normalcy And wrap myself in winter’s toughness That somehow this will fool the universe into a cosmic shift […]
“Tell me about Erica.” I am just about to get into the shower. My second one. I’m on a kind of “shower bender” these days. My initial reptilian reaction is of course “I can’t get into this right now.” Because it is always a good time to NOT get into things. It is always a […]
Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. Or my tenacity for slowness. I want to share with you some sloth smarts. Yes, SLOTH. Like the animal, not the sin. I’ve been applying experiential overlays with sloth logic on a flatbed projector just like they used in elementary school. Sloths are arboreal, meaning they spend nearly all […]
How My Depression Manifests Itself Physically in Two Parts Part One: I’m fine, everything’s fine. But my face feels like plastic. And I’m crying out my ear holes. Its a cold leak. My lower lids are heavy, Stopped up with last year’s stinking clots, And clinging vines. I choke on my spit like fifty times […]
“Are there any movies coming out soon that you are excited about?” This is our starter conversation, between my son and I. Given his youth and general easy going nature, he is surprisingly opinionated about movies and will never venture to answer the question first. Now that I think about it, I was very opinionated […]
Transitions I. Anyone else in their pupal stage? Its kind of icky in here, right? It seems like a lot of production, Just to shut down the means of reproduction. It harkens back to my sweaty, toad armored adolescence. So many braces, and sprains, and growing pains. In the fishbowl of my own claustrophobic self-conscious […]
I saved my monies and made one hundred books. Even though that sounds like a lot of books, like I could dive into them and swim around Scrooge McDuck style, it turns out that they can all fit tidily into one small heavy box. Which is kind of a relief actually. I’m just going to […]
Shadow Box Calling forth all my moments The representative The pivotal The ecstasy And the existential Come and submit to an autopsy Of sorts Or maybe just an examination A re-telling And a display Make like a butterfly in a shadow box. Oh winged one Alight just once more Let me admire your splendor And […]
Commitment Issues When I have a day off It worries me And then inevitably I enjoy it too much And then its bitter Like my coffee Microwaved too many times And not ready to commit to a fresh pot. ### Why I Don’t Dust I don’t dust book shelves If books get dusty This means […]
Small Animal Prayers I don’t mourn well in community, But I do it pretty well curled up Like a woolly bear The small animal part of me hopes that if I remain stalwart enough If I maintain normalcy And wrap myself in winter’s toughness That somehow this will fool the universe into a cosmic shift […]
“Tell me about Erica.” I am just about to get into the shower. My second one. I’m on a kind of “shower bender” these days. My initial reptilian reaction is of course “I can’t get into this right now.” Because it is always a good time to NOT get into things. It is always a […]
Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. Or my tenacity for slowness. I want to share with you some sloth smarts. Yes, SLOTH. Like the animal, not the sin. I’ve been applying experiential overlays with sloth logic on a flatbed projector just like they used in elementary school. Sloths are arboreal, meaning they spend nearly all […]
How My Depression Manifests Itself Physically in Two Parts Part One: I’m fine, everything’s fine. But my face feels like plastic. And I’m crying out my ear holes. Its a cold leak. My lower lids are heavy, Stopped up with last year’s stinking clots, And clinging vines. I choke on my spit like fifty times […]