Archive for June, 2008

lessons in patience

Monday, June 30th, 2008

cathryn exclaimed, "Rose, your life is a movie!" i replied, "so is yours." "yes, but your movie is a movie i'd actually pay to go watch. and i'd bring a big box of tissue." i'm better friends with the senior executive on my project than with my manager. the SE gets on AIM ...

we won’t hurry now

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

pull me down hard, drown me in love. just maybe, maybe, slow and steady crowns me queen, swing swing, and melt me like dreams, the way you move lately, i'm rising like wintry steam between the cracks of the concrete street, i'm making holes in the floor of my distrust, ...

this too shall pass

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

new orleans, april 2008

sunday.

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

found in a notebook from years ago: "Our artists must find the poetry in train stations, the way their fathers found the poetry in forests and rivers." --Emile Zola about Monet's paintings and today, today. what do our artists find poetry in?

ashes to ashes

Friday, June 6th, 2008

you took love and bottled it up. you forced carbonation into my heart and left me in the backseat of your car. i am that explosion that occurs with a mixture of sunlight, and yet jagged pieces of me still cling to our marmalade storm. -- a note of resignation hangs in ...

hello, june.

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

i. the electric fan is on. i'm sitting in my undies. in front of the computer. me and Pandora. i have no A/C in my apartment, but dammit, i have internet. ii. at the gym tonight, i went downstairs to get on the stationary bike (i never get on the stationary bike) just so ...