growing |
i'm listening to growing and remembering what the earth feels like, heavy and turning and struggling against its sun. m left today. we drove together to the airport and mentioned her departure only ...
Posted by gretchen on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:43:00 PST |
funny thing with blood |
i return from san diego, late and exhausted, too tired to give anything of myself but so ready to receive something from the ether. i think i can feel it like an electrified wave, moving through the a...
Posted by gretchen on Mon, 21 May 2007 12:07:00 PST |
the music of a million hydrogen bombs |
The Santa Anas have arrived, licking through valleys and across plateaus with a swollen and dry tongue. It is the season of nosebleeds and headaches, the time of year when my voice becomes deep ...
Posted by gretchen on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:33:00 PST |
when student becomes master |
after four (five?) years in the los angeles metropolitan area, today hosted my first pseudo-celebrity sighting. everyone who comes to visit me in this parched land where the sun hangs like a blo...
Posted by gretchen on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:43:00 PST |
beautiful things |
if it should come to pass that i am kidnapped by a team of hooligans and, eventually, maybe years later, my body is recovered breathing and sentient, i figure there will be three ways that you might a...
Posted by gretchen on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:13:00 PST |
one billion tastes and tunes |
well after midnight and i am as awake as i have been in months. on a whim, i decided about an hour ago to show my roommate's schwinn the night, so now i am tooling around claremont and its sister cit...
Posted by gretchen on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:59:00 PST |
the eel |
i am almost ready to tell the story of the eel. soon.
Posted by gretchen on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:03:00 PST |
industry |
last night, something so strange. there is a place along the 210 freeway where los angeles county conspicuously concedes a limit to its sovereignty and, through expanses of undeveloped land, the road...
Posted by gretchen on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:54:00 PST |
why i suddenly want to have copious amounts of sex with shaun white |
because i love a witty burner. (or, if "witty" isn't quite fitting, i at least adore a grassed-out renard rouge who glamorizes and anthropomorphizes the fauna of the world as much as i do.) ...
Posted by gretchen on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:29:00 PST |
the simultaneity of stillness and vibration |
it's ojos rojos on repeat -- deep under the surface of the ear where soundwaves hit hours ago but vibrate still -- as we traverse cold washington hunting land dappled with rain and half light across t...
Posted by gretchen on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:08:00 PST |
