I was born too early for telepathy. I was born too late for email, although I did receive plenty of e-cards from my parents. But luckily for me,...
How good to see with these eyes dreamy joyful tears like lullabies. Grass and sea and star and cliff -- a testament, Aloysha's kiss...
Let's spend the weekend in a lullaby. Take a trip right to the edge of what you know, and let’s sit in a perfect silence, 2 as 1, y...
First above all, Mrs. Floyd in her apron who'd laugh and say "the rain will soon pass today." I was first to read and learn a...
You are golden! Brighter than any star. You are my key lime pie in the bright blue sky.
Sing to me the song of summer, and...
There is no stopping when I'm ahead. And I don't want to stop because I like how it feels when I'm going. I can tear through these like candy n...
Lake Martin, you are beating down on me with ultraviolet fervor. A red hot sun branding me into another decade. This fever smells like a...
You are an amnesia: forgiveness at the baptismal font. Still I wish I were eidetic.
I’ve never seen these shores. Moun...
These waters are darkly stormy, but they invite me inward. There is no moonlight here, just the flicker of ancient lights and flip phones atop this...
On the kitchen floor, my little sister and I gave the dog a group hug as my mom was cooking something. Laughing, I wanted to get a rise out of he...
I keep my dragon on a string; see it soaring up above? It’s black and purple, a real sight in the sky, yet from down here you’d thin...
Those Sidewalks in November: Always abustling with the pitter patter of proper pep. Arms swaying and tongues confessing to the music of ...
Book of red, crimson. I do not remember this time, only vaguely aware of the simple emotion and language. Words that feel natural and easy to r...
I walk out of the shadow of the beast, a Lab no more. Six slit pupils cut into the dark and right at me with a wicked snarl, but by the sword it's ...
From my second-floor prison cell my yellow eyes can spy the rolling fields and blooming wildflowers but when I dream, I see both wilt and...
From St. John the apostle, that lucid dreamer, old man. Seven stars and seven lights and seven churches.
Inked upon papyrus, ...
Like Saul on way to Damascus, I will rise a new creation.
And I will roam the sunset of New Heaven and New Earth.
And I will th...
Behold my kingly words. There is power to my blood, and mountains move with my bark. But the very idea of my being – and this idea alone – is like ...
It was supposed to be an easy $100. $90 if you subtract the cost of participation. But not even one minute in, and my hands are beginning to shake ...
I washed ashore, weak and waterlogged and with my tail between my legs.
Look at me and tell me that you'll remember me.
...
This is a message… a system of messages… Listen closely.
This is not a place of ho...
Be warm and euphoric. Silence the talks of winter winds; there is time for tea.
Be still against loneliness' despair. Admi...
On this long night of the soul, let me stand adrift on this dark river ride. When weeping waters gnash and tear at black frost and jagged ice, let...
Have you ever visited an old house of yours before? I have. I've gone driving for driving's sake, and I've decided to visit my past along the way. ...
It's time for the next book in this series: Graeber's BS Jobs. It was a dense book, so I'll let Wikipedia catch you up to speed. I've grad...
I am in a tunnel equal parts fever dream and drunken haze. I see the subatomic decay of reality with myopic clarity. I toss and I turn and my mu...
At the end of the road, say that you will remember me not as I was but as what I could have been, with glowing earthy eyes and a chocolate silhoue...
Melt away the morning frost, and wake up to a world on fire. Feel the sun's glow on the handle of your instant coffee, and seek shelter in the sola...
Let the machine run whole, and let the gears shift as one. The copper in the air is not accidental. The machine is run on blood and gears, and the ...
An old familiar yellow pierces the dark, and the sun rays above cast away the songs of sorrow. Amidst darkness and decay your eyes shine an am...
I've lived through 21 different New Year celebrations at the time of this writing (please don't check that math). I remember some of them, suc...
Outside, where gray winds and gray vapors chill the air, the frost will freeze like freckles on your face. Grass turned gray will li...
He holds a paw at the door so that he may stroll out from the heat, but just as soon as the winter winds settle on the gentle giant's coat, he'd r...
And leave the rest for the vultures; they love the carrion. When the burning stench of flesh rises with the red sun, forty hurts are to be constru...
If I sit still for too long, I'll fall into the timestream and watch reality collapse in a violent purple storm. What have I always said about empi...
I walked without the heat of the summer sky or the frost of the full moon. Aimless, thoughtless, and so I faltered all the same. But there is some...
I can hear your breathing, so I know you're okay, sweet giant.
Yet I wonder why you dream so loudly, why your leg runs but your body ...
A white dog sleeps next to me; it’s 9 PM and I should be sleeping. Instead, the blue light of my Android flip phone blin...
When the hype cycle for the next Smash Bros. game for the 3DS was peaking sometime in late 2014, I recall obsessing over the prospective roster f...
There were water droplets at first: a massive flood that swallowed thousands in the fury of a storm. I blinked to get away, and when I opened my ey...
The ink is already dry, and your heartbeat I have predestined to misfortune.
Winter winds fall to summer sunlight, and the metronome hums a...
In a time too far gone to remember, the dragon of ice and obsidian hatched from the darkness of space. As young and starving as it was, the dragon...
My morning star. How sharp are her teeth; how piercing her claws. The muscles in her back lurch forward before she pounces onto her prey. She has b...
I need not to fear; the yellow Lab lives. I have seen the end in my dreams. Her solar light dances in the sky like royalty. And because of her, the...
Behold, the yellow Lab, whose golden fur glows with the glory of the stars!
Lost I once was, but the old prophecy hit me in the whisper of ...
I knew well in advance that I'd be dropping you off at the usual spot, but it didn't hit me until they asked for my signature and I stroked your fo...
There is no harm in locking a door and checking that you did in fact lock the door. It's quite normal. But to lock a door and pull on it, then l...
That was supposed to mean something, right? When I pulled on those doors and they swung open, unlocked and unsecure? I took it as a sign anyway. We...
That's who you are and always will be.
I once ran to avoid my problems; now I'd like to run toward them. I channel the frustrati...
I glance at the rearview mirror.
This is how it always starts. One glance when backing out. One glance for each bump. One glance for the...
The fruit of this Earth is sweet and juicy, but with what resistance do flower petals decay? Where stems and leaves once grew tall and...
And when the wolves come, who will mourn? Whose tears will fall for the pitiful, the pathetic? Whose throat will ache with grief for nature's crav...
They mounted stones on my chest. They mounted stones on my chest to stop the breathing. I lie in a dark cavern; the humid air sits still and heav...
I need not a special artifact or amulet to remember my mortality; I have something far more personal. My memento mor...