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learned to play guitar and even learned a new song played music for money spent time with my family busted a string playing guitar lost a friend fell in love climbed a mountain sat on a waterfall saw a palm tree walked along the beach in fog breathed salty air swam in the ocean discovered a fruit saw a gay pride parade camped in the Redwoods fireworks exploded right above my head made love on a cold starry night played in sand hiked down highway 101 slept on a boat in the bay skinny dipped in a lake and had *** on a train
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Nov 3, 2014
Nov 3, 2014 at 7:52 PM UTC
summer 2013
Camping in the Blue Ridge Mountains was the greatest day of my life It was my birthday I brought a suitcase and my favorite dame and hiked 2 miles UP^^^^^^^^ laughing all the way UP ^^^^^in the Ozarks Medics were shooting steroids in my **** BUT, never been more in love with a man who injects grief in my veins Dwelling in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains sensed his vibe Yes, Jesus I feel you here held en el Rio Grande con mis mejor amigos drooling in the hot springs Taos has called our names ********* the rocky sand that is below me I find a coin from New Zealand, in turn, losing my evil eye earring an offering to spirit's stream a pair of desert lizards we desire to get frisky and be alone we shine silver glitter under a moonlit glow witches cackle and curanderos hide behind coyote cries and cacti looking to each other with faces expressing, "What should do we do?" I guess allow them to do their thing humans need ceremonies too
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Feb 11, 2019
Feb 11, 2019 at 1:36 AM UTC
Mountain Memories
*I stopped by for a cigarette and to hear a story He always told the tale of one eyed molly She lost her eye In a fight with a dog The moral of the story was Never trust something Just because it may look harmless, Even act harmless But this day he told me another tale The one of old Lumberjack Dale* He was large like an ogre Chopped too many trees to know of Was stupid according to my uncle This gave me quite a chuckle He left off, on a normal morning Hiked up the mountain To where the clear dirt’s mourning Held his axe and began to swing The trees didn't have a prayer He thought he was king One fell down He yelled "TIMBER" Another smacked the ground He Yelled "TIMBER" Then another and Another Birds were scattering Squirrels were flying The sounds were of a madman grunting through fire "TIMBER" The fifth hit the ground The lumberjack ogre Had to sit down He swung one too many times, on this here day The mountain swung back with a black bear, ok? Protecting her cubs she wrestled the big man Teeth in his arm and his axe in his hand He squinted his eyes and flung the weapon Missing the giant bear standing about 6' 11" The mountain whispered to the lumberjack "Leave and never come back" He had ****** his pants and ran for the shack "TIMBER" The old black bear followed Protecting her land And the ones she adored
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Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 9:13 AM UTC
Lumberjack Dale
You laughed when my sleeve hiked up "Oh no, you're one of them." You laughed when I wanted to die "You're overreacting, you just need some sleep" You laughed when I showed you my favorite song "That is plain out pathetic" You laughed when I said goodbye "you're not gonna do it. You never do" Will you laugh at my funeral in the morning?
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Jan 19, 2016
Jan 19, 2016 at 8:36 PM UTC
You Laughed
Hills on top of fathomless hills Where I have built my home I walked here through the driest desserts Swam here through the deepest seas Hiked here through blizzards on mountains A little piece taken each moment Until I reached these hills At top the rise of the earth I look out at the universe I can look out and say I have been here I have left my mark Where it is the most important I can look at the people building Their homes and dreams and goals And know they to will stand about Their own hill, they will know that they Made a difference in the world Just by breathing the air By making one laugh And with that I may stray to the Mothers Arms And be sound , knowing I did my part
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Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012 at 6:54 AM UTC
Hills
Masochism is my favorite way to love; I adore deeply the one that is eager to leave me in the dust for his superficial passions. I cry infinitely as the rain over the Pacific, but it does not storm. It only blinds me with stinging tears that make a shore invisible. I had you wrapped around my finger, and you slipped off like an oversized ring, falling between the spaces of a gutter to travel sewers of risk; rank with the smell of doubt and returning loneliness. I travel these sewers barefoot with your risks up to my ankles, searching for you, my ring, dress hiked up to run as if you hadn't already seen such exposed leg. But only I splash. My lover is elusive. When he trembles in anger, he comes to me; when I tremble, he only flees. He does not understand his debts. I do, only I don't wish that he pay. My kindness is self-mutulation, for I know he will not appreciate my generosity. I think of him while he daydreams of riches and soaks in his wanderlust. I am simply a piece, a fragment, a speck of dust swimming among many in a ray of sunlight. I am not something he truly wishes to strive for. This murders me, and smashes my already broken heart into smaller, sharper pieces that seem harmless, but develop greater capacity to cut flesh.
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Jun 23, 2013
Jun 23, 2013 at 9:58 PM UTC
Consequences
I've drank a thousand beers I've smoked a million cigarrettes I've ate at least a hundred Twix bars I've watched Breakfast at Tiffany's hours on end I've flirted with every male waiter that brings me unfulfilling dish after unfulfilling dish I've bought weekly **** dark outfits and I've spent my life savings on beautiful MAC make-up and a new Legacy and pumps I think you'd like I've gotten my hair colored every color I can think of I've tried being an apathetic punk, an upbeat cowgirl,   a wide-eyed polyanna, a harsh madonna, a fuck-you-feline, an emotionally charged marilyn, and a classy Diane I've memorized witty jokes, and roasts, and rivetting last lines I've modeled and sang and became an athlete I've played hard to get, I've played easy and teasy And I've twirled my hair and crossed my legs and learned to walk while swaying my hips I've ran miles and kilometers and meters and I've lifted weights and done zumba and yoga and hiked and biked and **** There's no comfort                                  and no          getting    to                                                            you.
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Oct 3, 2012
Oct 3, 2012 at 1:10 PM UTC
****
the new tupac will have you too walkin with gangstas the new two stupidity now two steppin with prankstas murked the first one sayin he's blacker the berry when i'm sweeter than juice bass voiced top me if you want to experience that jacked tweeters induced when i own all of Victoria's secrets as proof tellin me what the body when all his deducement has him actin when he's wearin his shoes crypt walking like that it's only talk missed balking like has bass fits jocking as his only walk ******* with me when All Hailed Mary like if she was his when is only stolen balk I'm walkin again the gauntlet cuz all the women they want this flauntin all **** like if i was jackin all the wanted like ghost whippin me imma follow you till i'm haunted pain really, so bow down, when my diamonds glisten listen again is just as well bilateral biased has his confused his like the ol' eminem was in the new form gettin his face jacked again like me smokin crack with friends like all given enemies stressed was all given was a race black and then we actually are the same race like i knew you back like i owned all the streets like his females thuggin as heathen **** riding i'll **** your *** up like settin me up when i'm always the last muthafucken breathin exposing the ***** heathen breathin like if you were the only man catching bullet rounds exposed like the new you was still alive to the next ** hiked my socks up construed you at hit stupidity when will ride ghettos owned by just the black reppin when you're steppin the whack, honest it was just onyx i'll blast your *** like if you stole my pump shotty: like i never was wanted runst follies anamoly run has all criminal cops all fathering fun deceiving that all to gain was never greed when all greed in need bothering sons: all you still down with me when we ride it looking like a *** while i'm guy gee stag when you're looking into their eyes, they'd know comparison of a bird control as if fathering guys my knowledge is flight applauding the time, are you still down with me i hide behind the love of beauty of my womens eyes when you're looking like the female opened you up to your face compared to opening thighs they don't know like how you stare in the future that tommorow comes only after the dark knowing me marks the coming of the actual god I am "unconditional heart"
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Sep 5, 2018
Sep 5, 2018 at 11:59 AM UTC
The New tupac
the new tupac will have you too walkin with gangstas the new two stupidity now two steppin with prankstas murked the first one sayin he's blacker the berry when i'm sweeter than juice bass voiced top me if you want to experience that jacked tweeters induced when i own all of Victoria's secrets as proof tellin me what the body when all his deducement has him actin when he's wearin his shoes crypt walking like that it's only talk missed balking like has bass fits jocking as his only walk ******* with me when All Hailed Mary like if she was his when is only stolen balk I'm walkin again the gauntlet cuz all the women they want this flauntin all **** like if i was jackin all the wanted like ghost whippin me imma follow you till i'm haunted pain really, so bow down, when my diamonds glisten listen again is just as well bilateral biased has his confused his like the ol' eminem was in the new form gettin his face jacked again like me smokin crack with friends like all given enemies stressed was all given was a race black and then we actually are the same race like i knew you back like i owned all the streets like his females thuggin as heathen **** riding i'll **** your *** up like settin me up when i'm always the last muthafucken breathin exposing the ***** heathen breathin like if you were the only man catching bullet rounds exposed like the new you was still alive to the next ** hiked my socks up construed you at hit stupidity when will ride ghettos owned by just the black reppin when you're steppin the whack, honest it was just onyx i'll blast your *** like if you stole my pump shotty: like i never was wanted runst follies anamoly run has all criminal cops all fathering fun deceiving that all to gain was never greed when all greed in need bothering sons: all you still down with me when we ride it looking like a *** while i'm guy gee stag when you're looking into their eyes, they'd know comparison of a bird control as if fathering guys my knowledge is flight applauding the time, are you still down with me i hide behind the love of beauty of my womens eyes when you're looking like the female opened you up to your face compared to opening thighs they don't know like how you stare in the future that tommorow comes only after the dark knowing me marks the coming of the actual god I am "unconditional heart"
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for Robin On that frosted January day,      you and I hiked north along the Mississippi shore      on a trail marked well before us. Footfall tapestries etched in snow      wove tales of assiduous commerce of hosts of fur-cloaked cousins: the playful step-slide gambit of an otter -       rabbit paw tracks by the score. A bald eagle soared above singing ripples       in quest of a mid-day meal. The distant staccato cadence       of a pileated woodpecker           echoed off the limestone bluffs on that January afternoon.      Dusk-light washed the western sky           in pastel gold and crimson hues. A coal barge heading south      thundered against the floes, scattering ice across the channel,      then vanished beyond the bend. And we like bargemen at their tillers,      set our southward course retracing footprints in the snow -      back to the world of clocks and enterprise. January, 2011
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Nov 13, 2015
Nov 13, 2015 at 6:14 AM UTC
Footsteps in the Snow
Let's go grab the money Hidden in the Christmas Tree Shoppe mason jar with the Frosted stencil designs, Ornate and resembling flora. Let's take that money, The three separate wadded ***** of once crisp Green pieces of paper That somehow reach the Arbitrary total of one Thousand, three hundred and Twenty dollars and Fifty lonely cents. Let's take that 1,320.50 And go see the desolate Stretch of sprawling Humanity deferred between These hiked peaks and the Dangerous mountains Separating the west From the rest. Let's go there! Let's go there! We'll make it across, Be sure of that, Be sure of nothing But that! Let's use the remaining Seven fifty To buy some Seven Eleven sustenance To have while We walk backwards Down backroads edged With the encroachment Of the wild back into Negative space some Long-ago engineer Carved and paved. Let's tell the driver of This beat-up Time-worn down Overcast grey Buick LeSabre That we can pay her Ten dollars to replace The juice necessary to get Us back to our sick aunt's House in Poughkeepsie. At the gas station We'll tell her to stop Real quick And hope she leaves the Auto to go Pay the schlup at The teller's booth And jack the beater And hope we won't Have to bolt Again if she doesn't. Let's call my cousin And find out who will give Us four hundred dollars for The stolen used parts store And take that four hundred And buy: Two (2) greyhound tickets to get us Back to our ****** apartment In Stamford: 64.50 American Three (3) damp-bunned flimsy Beef patties glued between Pieces of government-issue Yellow American cheese With all the fixins we please: 3.24 American One (1) zip of dried out Seeded and stemmed breaks From the boredom of Our own conscious Processes: 120 American if lucky At least eight (8) servings Of amphetamine based Pressed little buttons Of confused energy: 200 American One (1) bouquet of Red yellow and oranges Mixed on the petals of Your mother's favorite Species: whatever's left American.
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Oct 2, 2012
Oct 2, 2012 at 12:40 AM UTC
--Vacation--
Let's go grab the money Hidden in the Christmas Tree Shoppe mason jar with the Frosted stencil designs, Ornate and resembling flora. Let's take that money, The three separate wadded ***** of once crisp Green pieces of paper That somehow reach the Arbitrary total of one Thousand, three hundred and Twenty dollars and Fifty lonely cents. Let's take that 1,320.50 And go see the desolate Stretch of sprawling Humanity deferred between These hiked peaks and the Dangerous mountains Separating the west From the rest. Let's go there! Let's go there! We'll make it across, Be sure of that, Be sure of nothing But that! Let's use the remaining Seven fifty To buy some Seven Eleven sustenance To have while We walk backwards Down backroads edged With the encroachment Of the wild back into Negative space some Long-ago engineer Carved and paved. Let's tell the driver of This beat-up Time-worn down Overcast grey Buick LeSabre That we can pay her Ten dollars to replace The juice necessary to get Us back to our sick aunt's House in Poughkeepsie. At the gas station We'll tell her to stop Real quick And hope she leaves the Auto to go Pay the schlup at The teller's booth And jack the beater And hope we won't Have to bolt Again if she doesn't. Let's call my cousin And find out who will give Us four hundred dollars for The stolen used parts store And take that four hundred And buy: Two (2) greyhound tickets to get us Back to our ****** apartment In Stamford: 64.50 American Three (3) damp-bunned flimsy Beef patties glued between Pieces of government-issue Yellow American cheese With all the fixins we please: 3.24 American One (1) zip of dried out Seeded and stemmed breaks From the boredom of Our own conscious Processes: 120 American if lucky At least eight (8) servings Of amphetamine based Pressed little buttons Of confused energy: 200 American One (1) bouquet of Red yellow and oranges Mixed on the petals of Your mother's favorite Species: whatever's left American.
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When I was little We never went to the beach, Or the lake, Or the river In fact the very idea that, Anything was larger than the creek behind my house Was foreign to me   I knew it existed, But I didn’t really… I’d never seen it But when I did, I still remember the fear   Walking up to edge of the cool water The grit of the sand The heat of the sun The smell of fish The knowledge that the waves could pull me in Take me away   But the thing that stays with me the most Is the feeling I felt calm I felt at peace I never knew that Never understood it anyway I could have stood there for hours Just staring out at the endlessness Knowing that there was something on the other side of that Something else that I could see It made me realize how small I was It made me realize how big I was I guess that’s the beginning I went back, Searching For that feeling again I returned to very spot Same time of day Same day of the year But it wasn’t the same Something’s was missing Maybe I just needed a different beach Maybe I don't need a beach But I still kept searching Looking around Questioning if I’ll ever feel so small again Someday Somehow I’d feel that again That endlessness That serenity That hope But if that was the only time I wish I had taken more Just a few seconds To really memorize it To really embrace it Before I ran off I hiked up a mountain side The rough rocks digging into my hands The leaves providing shade The nutty, floral scent on the wind Then there at the top The sun set below the horizon And then that feeling arose once again And I knew it wasn’t endlessness I felt that day Rather I was Complete
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Oct 26, 2015
Oct 26, 2015 at 11:23 PM UTC
Water
When I was little We never went to the beach, Or the lake, Or the river In fact the very idea that, Anything was larger than the creek behind my house Was foreign to me   I knew it existed, But I didn’t really… I’d never seen it But when I did, I still remember the fear   Walking up to edge of the cool water The grit of the sand The heat of the sun The smell of fish The knowledge that the waves could pull me in Take me away   But the thing that stays with me the most Is the feeling I felt calm I felt at peace I never knew that Never understood it anyway I could have stood there for hours Just staring out at the endlessness Knowing that there was something on the other side of that Something else that I could see It made me realize how small I was It made me realize how big I was I guess that’s the beginning I went back, Searching For that feeling again I returned to very spot Same time of day Same day of the year But it wasn’t the same Something’s was missing Maybe I just needed a different beach Maybe I don't need a beach But I still kept searching Looking around Questioning if I’ll ever feel so small again Someday Somehow I’d feel that again That endlessness That serenity That hope But if that was the only time I wish I had taken more Just a few seconds To really memorize it To really embrace it Before I ran off I hiked up a mountain side The rough rocks digging into my hands The leaves providing shade The nutty, floral scent on the wind Then there at the top The sun set below the horizon And then that feeling arose once again And I knew it wasn’t endlessness I felt that day Rather I was Complete
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I chased the first rays of an autumn morning but to my sorrow when I arrived at the urgent place the sun had already risen breathing a crowning glory of a seasons brilliant splendor alighting the glowing amber of golden woods shining like gleaming constellations of dazzling morning stars... though I desired to find ascendent beauty the ubiquitous glow of transfigured leaves immersed me in a divine chrome... as I traversed the woods, my solitary steps found companionship with a sullen mistress singing a sad rustle of dry fallen leaves and as the drone of cars faded from the receding road I searched myself for courage and found resolve I pondered truth and discovered the wisdom of resolution... yearning  to realize a deeper faith I hiked further up the wooded hill, visiting the gay playfields of my youth and received an epiphany of wholesome closure opening new timeless doors... still questing for more light a prophetic wren whirred a pliant secret into my ear she bespoke a symphony of avian improvisations conversing in a thousand luminous tongues, relating a sonorous elegy teaming with the brightest joys of life raising bold proclamations celebrating a seasons radiance imploring me to join the chorus... though the canopy of the woods still boasted boughs of green the infant hues of spring had run its course the glory of an expiring season strewn on the forest floor covering the mouldering stags inching back into the compost of life breeding blankets of furry moss feeding on the primal organica of seemingly expired flora here, in this darkened moment I realized the transcendent miracle the loam of life incubating churning   in concert with the turn of seasons... to my sorrow I missed the first rays of the morning the first peeks of light a breaking day gracefully bespeaks upon a sleeping earth awoken in new light yet I am filled I am transcendent I am the first ray of an eternal light I am the first ray of my earthen gloaming... on the morrow the best of me is in the marrow of all who loved me and all whom I loved these rays of me will forever rise in an eternity of dawnings For Joey Godspeed Beloved Vaughan Williams: Lark Ascending Oakland 101313 jbm
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Oct 14, 2013
Oct 14, 2013 at 12:13 AM UTC
First Rays of an Autumn Morning
I chased the first rays of an autumn morning but to my sorrow when I arrived at the urgent place the sun had already risen breathing a crowning glory of a seasons brilliant splendor alighting the glowing amber of golden woods shining like gleaming constellations of dazzling morning stars... though I desired to find ascendent beauty the ubiquitous glow of transfigured leaves immersed me in a divine chrome... as I traversed the woods, my solitary steps found companionship with a sullen mistress singing a sad rustle of dry fallen leaves and as the drone of cars faded from the receding road I searched myself for courage and found resolve I pondered truth and discovered the wisdom of resolution... yearning  to realize a deeper faith I hiked further up the wooded hill, visiting the gay playfields of my youth and received an epiphany of wholesome closure opening new timeless doors... still questing for more light a prophetic wren whirred a pliant secret into my ear she bespoke a symphony of avian improvisations conversing in a thousand luminous tongues, relating a sonorous elegy teaming with the brightest joys of life raising bold proclamations celebrating a seasons radiance imploring me to join the chorus... though the canopy of the woods still boasted boughs of green the infant hues of spring had run its course the glory of an expiring season strewn on the forest floor covering the mouldering stags inching back into the compost of life breeding blankets of furry moss feeding on the primal organica of seemingly expired flora here, in this darkened moment I realized the transcendent miracle the loam of life incubating churning   in concert with the turn of seasons... to my sorrow I missed the first rays of the morning the first peeks of light a breaking day gracefully bespeaks upon a sleeping earth awoken in new light yet I am filled I am transcendent I am the first ray of an eternal light I am the first ray of my earthen gloaming... on the morrow the best of me is in the marrow of all who loved me and all whom I loved these rays of me will forever rise in an eternity of dawnings For Joey Godspeed Beloved Vaughan Williams: Lark Ascending Oakland 101313 jbm
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A lifetime has passed since then. I sat for hours on that fetid bus, excitement knotted in my belly like a nest of twisting snakes, until we arrived and nestled in the mountains, South and West. Our cabin was on the fringe, just as I was, back then. I spread my bed and settled down, made myself a temporary home. Days passed with but little consequence-- rock walls and human foosball and oversized jawbreakers and a giant swing; corn dogs in the sand of the volleyball courts and ice cream on the balcony at the overlook. We hiked uphill to find a waterfall as utopian as my foolish faith, and there we basked under the Carolina sun I climbed and slipped until I found a perch behind the roar. I can still feel the goosebumps upon my pale adolescent skin. When I grew bored, I scaled to the top and jumped feet first.
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Dec 24, 2012
Dec 24, 2012 at 9:25 PM UTC
Then
Fairbanks Alaska Was harsh and cold and was Not as fair as it was originally thought. A rifle too small for big game And Galliens shoes two sizes too big on Chris’s feet He set off for his last adventure Hiked towards Stampede trail through the wind and ice With nothing but a grin on his face and his ten pound bag of rice
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Apr 20, 2015
Apr 20, 2015 at 10:29 AM UTC
Chris McCandless
Her fingers were covered in corn. the corn after chewing, broken pierced, churned- it could spread as butter thick on stale toast, if needed "it's fine, don't you worry, we'll get you all cleaned up" she stared indifferently Strings dangled from her mouth, unswept full of necessary greens ---"mhm there there, this will give you so much energy" --- drags of breath, half inhale half choke. nothing to look forward to, not the next soaking glob, not the cursing woman in the bathroom, not the spill of light to her eyes Where are the ladles, Did you check on it? The key? Just moved, most the suitcases aren't there yet. Remember to bring the Did you check on it? pay attention. Have you seen my grand kids? who are you? Sunday's are for the active ones The games down the hall are too far. Why worry with legs, if she could just adjust to the left the world could sag into an ongoing dream- No demands, no games, no movement. The nurses hair net had more presence than the splotch of gray against her peeling itchy scalp. Drool leaked from leather lips, dampening the collar of her two month sticky blouse. Arms curled and locked,displaying under the wax skin cranberry patches- she never wiped them off. Always the soft murmer of a snore, always the smell of unbrushed teeth and hampers. "Did you touch those where don't touch me scott scott scott leave my things alone thevenin I need a stop lying I want to go scott, scott? scott. I can't remember any" I said my name four times before she heard me, knew me I fixed her pillow and my sister marked off the day on the calendar. We told her about school, the marching band, each word filled with forced enthusiasm. She bobbed her head in circles, lazily rolling her eyes, the curtain shading the empty space. We spent 30 minutes precisely. She was more than I realized. I never knew she had horseback riding, violin playing days. She traveled and hiked. We could have been close. Unraveling with the mystery, I felt the lateness of my curiosity. It was 30 minutes precisely, always. We acted as strangers, reciting routine and wishing each other a happy day and a quiet love you
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Sep 9, 2012
Sep 9, 2012 at 5:21 PM UTC
Lunch Time at Daycare
Her fingers were covered in corn. the corn after chewing, broken pierced, churned- it could spread as butter thick on stale toast, if needed "it's fine, don't you worry, we'll get you all cleaned up" she stared indifferently Strings dangled from her mouth, unswept full of necessary greens ---"mhm there there, this will give you so much energy" --- drags of breath, half inhale half choke. nothing to look forward to, not the next soaking glob, not the cursing woman in the bathroom, not the spill of light to her eyes Where are the ladles, Did you check on it? The key? Just moved, most the suitcases aren't there yet. Remember to bring the Did you check on it? pay attention. Have you seen my grand kids? who are you? Sunday's are for the active ones The games down the hall are too far. Why worry with legs, if she could just adjust to the left the world could sag into an ongoing dream- No demands, no games, no movement. The nurses hair net had more presence than the splotch of gray against her peeling itchy scalp. Drool leaked from leather lips, dampening the collar of her two month sticky blouse. Arms curled and locked,displaying under the wax skin cranberry patches- she never wiped them off. Always the soft murmer of a snore, always the smell of unbrushed teeth and hampers. "Did you touch those where don't touch me scott scott scott leave my things alone thevenin I need a stop lying I want to go scott, scott? scott. I can't remember any" I said my name four times before she heard me, knew me I fixed her pillow and my sister marked off the day on the calendar. We told her about school, the marching band, each word filled with forced enthusiasm. She bobbed her head in circles, lazily rolling her eyes, the curtain shading the empty space. We spent 30 minutes precisely. She was more than I realized. I never knew she had horseback riding, violin playing days. She traveled and hiked. We could have been close. Unraveling with the mystery, I felt the lateness of my curiosity. It was 30 minutes precisely, always. We acted as strangers, reciting routine and wishing each other a happy day and a quiet love you
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I’ll sleep within these woods tonight, That much, at least, is plain. I’d hiked for several hours And not much day remained. The shadows on the ground grow long As it’s that time of year when leaves on branches are few or none and shadows sinister appear. There is a clearing up ahead; A friendly glow is seen A solitary camper sits beneath an Evergreen.. His smile is warm and friendly He bades me to remain with gestures warm and welcoming Speech lyrical and strange.. I share with him a simple meal Of pan fried fish and beer. The meal seems like a miracle As I know of no lake near. Dark night has come and both are glad To spread our bedrolls down I sleep the night like one who’s dead. I wake, and no one’s near. No sign of my host or his tent No sign that he was here. I shake my head in wonder And pack my roll to go. What the Evergreen has witnessed is not for me to know.
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Dec 23, 2011
Dec 23, 2011 at 9:57 PM UTC
EVERGREEN
I've been trying to imagine what you'll feel like Once you've hiked to the peak of my Demureness. Tell me how many times you've envisioned that expedition -Dreams and Reality Fantasies and Actuality- Lets make the transition. I want you to feel what I feel like. I want you to feel me.
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Mar 5, 2013
Mar 5, 2013 at 8:59 AM UTC
Anticipation
The skies are blue and the clouds look fluffy. The air is crisp and the water is chilling. The mountains appear to touch the sky and the leaves are rich shades of green, red, and orange. I walked along out of service train tracks that cut through this mountain. Literally, through it. The tunnels started on the West Shore of Donner Lake and followed the ridge of the mountain all the way to Truckee. I hiked a half a mile from the highway up to an opening in the tunnel. For a few hundred yards the tunnel was riddled with broken bottles and worthless graffiti. As I walked further in, the garbage began to disappear and the graffiti became thoughtful, artful. It became darker and darker until I could only see the circle illuminated by my pin flashlight. On one spot of the wall someone had written the entire first chapter of Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. Someone had drawn a white line. Just a white line and I was so intrigued by it. People wrote stories of the lives. "Im kevin, my gf broke up w me now im gay" or "Im pat. i got dmt and then i got aids" and "im kaylene. thats it." Someone sprayed a **** pipe on the wall of the tunnel and it was green. They paid very good attention to the crystals in the bowl and the smoke rising from it. A young girl with black hair had her lips on the pipe and she was breathing in. Written under it was "Remember, remember, the 5th of November." Some one else had sprayed a cowboy. One half of him was black outlined with white and gray detail and the other half was white outlined with gray and black detail. Next to it was written "Childe Roland to the dark tower come." Some one else had sprayed a devil. He was red with pure black eyes. It was signed "Self Portrait." Halfway through there was a drain and creepily enough a faint light was shining from underneath the thick grates. Above it some one wrote "I stashed my **** here for three years." Under that someone had wrote "Gateway to hell." The rocks jutted out in straight lines. Some were smooth and others rough. The mountains cleansed me. They wiped away some of the grime this small city has polluted me with. The crisp air exfolliated some of the smoke from my lungs and the water pulled the dirt from my skin and the hike massaged my sore feet and the graffiti swept through one eyeball and took all the garbage in my brain out through the other eyeball. The mountains saved me.
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Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 12:00 AM UTC
The Sierra Nevadas.
The skies are blue and the clouds look fluffy. The air is crisp and the water is chilling. The mountains appear to touch the sky and the leaves are rich shades of green, red, and orange. I walked along out of service train tracks that cut through this mountain. Literally, through it. The tunnels started on the West Shore of Donner Lake and followed the ridge of the mountain all the way to Truckee. I hiked a half a mile from the highway up to an opening in the tunnel. For a few hundred yards the tunnel was riddled with broken bottles and worthless graffiti. As I walked further in, the garbage began to disappear and the graffiti became thoughtful, artful. It became darker and darker until I could only see the circle illuminated by my pin flashlight. On one spot of the wall someone had written the entire first chapter of Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. Someone had drawn a white line. Just a white line and I was so intrigued by it. People wrote stories of the lives. "Im kevin, my gf broke up w me now im gay" or "Im pat. i got dmt and then i got aids" and "im kaylene. thats it." Someone sprayed a **** pipe on the wall of the tunnel and it was green. They paid very good attention to the crystals in the bowl and the smoke rising from it. A young girl with black hair had her lips on the pipe and she was breathing in. Written under it was "Remember, remember, the 5th of November." Some one else had sprayed a cowboy. One half of him was black outlined with white and gray detail and the other half was white outlined with gray and black detail. Next to it was written "Childe Roland to the dark tower come." Some one else had sprayed a devil. He was red with pure black eyes. It was signed "Self Portrait." Halfway through there was a drain and creepily enough a faint light was shining from underneath the thick grates. Above it some one wrote "I stashed my **** here for three years." Under that someone had wrote "Gateway to hell." The rocks jutted out in straight lines. Some were smooth and others rough. The mountains cleansed me. They wiped away some of the grime this small city has polluted me with. The crisp air exfolliated some of the smoke from my lungs and the water pulled the dirt from my skin and the hike massaged my sore feet and the graffiti swept through one eyeball and took all the garbage in my brain out through the other eyeball. The mountains saved me.
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It’s starting to cool down here in Connecticut. Leaves are falling, like giant, burnt snowflakes (science says that trees send chemical signals to their branches to clip leaves away). Peter borrowed a friend's toy-like, pea green, Fiat-500 convertible and we drove into the country to see the turning leaves. We hiked a bit too and stopped, in Mystic, for seafood. I never realized just how theatrical trees could be, with their few, simple, chlorophyll tricks and how reflective still lakes could be. Wowzer, just - wowzer. There are some things that should never be shared. Like a toothbrush, an iPad, lipstick, strawberry stroopwafels, a slice of pizza or a secret lover (that last one just sounded good). But life is good, I can share that. We’re young, dramatic sophomores with good hair products and we’re at it, working and playing hard. Ahh.. ok, upon consultation, I have to add that some of us are in their mid-twenties with only a few good years left. Did I mention that we climbed up a twisty lighthouse staircase too? Peter always thinks people should take the stairs, and not the elevators, “You want to have muscles and bones that work when you’re eighty,” He says. Since he’s closer to eighty than I am, when we’re not carrying furniture, I let him have his way. Of course, he’s never been to up Lisa’s 50th floor townhouse either. My mom told me that they’re off to Poland again, over the holidays, for another tour with “Doctors without Borders” **** war). Lisa’s parents have (kindly) invited me to share their high-rise utopia again this year. Who knows, maybe Peter will have his chance to try those stairs.
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Nov 4, 2022
Nov 4, 2022 at 3:30 PM UTC
leaves
It’s starting to cool down here in Connecticut. Leaves are falling, like giant, burnt snowflakes (science says that trees send chemical signals to their branches to clip leaves away). Peter borrowed a friend's toy-like, pea green, Fiat-500 convertible and we drove into the country to see the turning leaves. We hiked a bit too and stopped, in Mystic, for seafood. I never realized just how theatrical trees could be, with their few, simple, chlorophyll tricks and how reflective still lakes could be. Wowzer, just - wowzer. There are some things that should never be shared. Like a toothbrush, an iPad, lipstick, strawberry stroopwafels, a slice of pizza or a secret lover (that last one just sounded good). But life is good, I can share that. We’re young, dramatic sophomores with good hair products and we’re at it, working and playing hard. Ahh.. ok, upon consultation, I have to add that some of us are in their mid-twenties with only a few good years left. Did I mention that we climbed up a twisty lighthouse staircase too? Peter always thinks people should take the stairs, and not the elevators, “You want to have muscles and bones that work when you’re eighty,” He says. Since he’s closer to eighty than I am, when we’re not carrying furniture, I let him have his way. Of course, he’s never been to up Lisa’s 50th floor townhouse either. My mom told me that they’re off to Poland again, over the holidays, for another tour with “Doctors without Borders” **** war). Lisa’s parents have (kindly) invited me to share their high-rise utopia again this year. Who knows, maybe Peter will have his chance to try those stairs.
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I was born tall and thin and pink like a ****** steak. I cried until I could run and then ran like a lunatic, screaming peals of laughter and destroying without guilt as kids do- and still I was skinny. I was skinny in elementary school. The other kids took to football and dirt bikes. I was still pink like an underripe tomato. I grew up tall and thin in a world for shorter and fuller people. With crooked teeth and glasses. I was skinny in middle school. When the other kids started to build muscle you could've played my ribs like a xylophone. You still could. I grew up tall and thin and frustrated like a **** I never fit on public busses or in the little plastic desks at school. My feet stuck off the end of my bed. They still do. I slouched and hiked my shoulders up so as not to obstruct others' line of sight. I still do. I was skinny when I first fell in love. What she saw in me, I can't say. I was tall and thin and crooked but I wanted so badly, just for once, to be the right shape for her. She was rather short and had caramel skin. We made an odd couple. I grew up tall and thin, a square peg in a world of round holes. I'm skinny today- a pinkish wisp with a skinny soul tucked away behind dark sunglasses. I was born skinny. And I'll probably die skinny too, and make a tall, thin corpse for a much shorter, wider casket.
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Sep 9, 2015
Sep 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM UTC
Skinny
Papa showed me the way to the wild blueberries. We hiked up the tall hill, and found those sapphire spheres hanging from delicate stems.   He told me stories of our Native American ancestors as he taught me how to pick the berries; surely a lesson in gathering like this goes centuries beyond our two lives combined! We took handfuls and filled our mouths with the sweetest blueberries I had ever tasted. Once we had our fill, we gazed out upon the horizon and admired the beauty of the ancient forest, then we returned down the dusty trail, climbed into the truck, and drove away.
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Jun 4, 2017
Jun 4, 2017 at 3:36 PM UTC
The Wild Blueberries
I hiked up the highest hill To watch the sun go down On your birthday On a not quite full moon of April I stared right in it with such thrill And felt the blood neon colours Of your departure Rush through my veins and freezing me still Stood in awe of this miracle I promised I will Find an aperture As I’m about to take on this solo adventure Of a lifetime of dreams I’ve yet to fulfil.
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Apr 22, 2021
Apr 22, 2021 at 5:32 PM UTC
Aperture
a blue flower a runner's shoe a sun that's shining a ride that's new a person laughing a cat in the window a melody rising a happy widow a twisted drum a soft goodbye a pretty face a peaceful sigh a libra calling a buttoned shirt a crab with claws a cut that hurt a white smile a bullet punch a hiked up skirt a snack to munch a disco sound a plant that's green a piece of paper a ballet scene
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May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013 at 12:18 PM UTC
Eclecticity