almost

It's the second to the last day of 2017 and my mania is in high gear. No need to worry... I'm sure almost everyone is pretty much safe, figuratively speaking metaphorically of course. Yes. I'm [sic]. I imagine a lot of depressed people have more trouble than usual during the holidays. Too much sugar, too...

silent

Since the end of National Blog Posting Month, and the calendar changed from November to December, notification of my blog postings have been notably  silent  (I mean, unless you haven't really noticed, I guess)... The first two weeks of the last month of 2017 have been quite roller-coastery, or as I like to call it,...

inheritance

I meant to get out last week and get a little gift bag of fun stuff to give to Jameel, the waste management specialist who left a Christmas card under the lid of our garbage can during last week's usual Monday pick-up. I want to take one of the found-poetry cards I made last year...

knit

So, it turns out today is November 30th.  I though it was the 29th.  I've been off by a day this entire week. I keep checking the calendar on my phone because I'm sure it's wrong. I even checked the On This Day tab on my facebook page, and I'll be damned if everything was...

snippet

All the Me's in my head (along with all their demons, and/or representatives thereof) have been sitting around my mind's conference table, chain-smoking cigarettes and shouting ideas & insults at one another like Carolyn Butler's first day of work at the Richardson advertising agency in the movie "Mr. Mom."  I'm instinctively cleaning up their rubbish...

one-way

A dark road. Not marked, not lit, not on the map. One-way -- and it's impossible to tell which way is the right one. The car has a broken gas gauge, and it's barely raining but every time those shitty wipers make a pass across the windshield they only serve to make everything even more...

bite

I feel like what's left over after the piranhas get tired of chewing; the part of the ocean accessorized by scavenger fish waiting for their turn to take a bite of what the carnivores forgot to swallow.  I feel like I might have looked delicious on the surface... before I ended up diluted like the...

shimmer

Paying tribute to my Mom with the 7-Day Black & White Photo Challenge by posting Thanksgiving-themed haiga created from images of some of Mom’s old kitchenware which I still have in my gadget cupboards & utensil drawers, and haiku I wrote via online prompts. . . Mom's yuletide fire the spicy shimmer of her sugar...

foggy

Paying tribute to my Mom with the 7-Day Black & White Photo Challenge by posting Thanksgiving-themed haiga created from images of some of Mom’s old kitchenware which I still have in my gadget cupboards & utensil drawers, and haiku I wrote via online prompts. . . foggy kitchen windows after Thanksgiving I draw a heart...

genius

Paying tribute to my Mom with the 7-Day Black & White Photo Challenge by posting Thanksgiving-themed haiga created from images of some of Mom’s old kitchenware which I still have in my gadget cupboards & utensil drawers, and haiku I wrote via online prompts. . . butter & sugar I carry this torch of my...