An Orienteer Loses Bearing (Draft 6) |
Mount Sherman transcends the range. Longs Pass secrets Hermans Gulch. I touch gorge and am transformed as granite gouges my hands reverent. I cannot discern cairn from talus in the landslide. Ne... Posted by on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:04:00 GMT |
Gathering Apples |
Once upon a time, in an empty orchard,I laughed in the lap of a pretty girl.She tousled my hair, ripe with summer sun. She teased me with her own, draping bangs the color of dry grassdown onto my fore... Posted by on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:30:00 GMT |
The Teachers Prayer |
Each year, I watch those fragile soulsgrow like rime ice on the window,the subtle accumulation of fractals, crystalline lattices reaching for shape.I too, huff my breath at the sill anddraw blunt pict... Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:00:00 GMT |
Christmas 2007 Essay |
"Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunturbury they ... Posted by on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:48:00 GMT |
Prose - Sleep Saturation |
I can't wake up. I won't wake up. No matter how much I want to, regardless of consequence. I hear my alarms, all three of them, located in different corners, set at different times, ... Posted by on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:31:00 GMT |
Going To Sea: The Tao of Going to Sea |
Continuation of Going To Sea
The Tao of Going To Sea
Without extremity, the will that refines itself unto the realization of ultimate constraint is the consummation of all extremities. True unde... Posted by on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:36:00 GMT |
TV - The Beautiful Eighties |
I have a confession to make. It's my guilty little pleasure of late. I have been rewatching the first two seasons of Miami Vice on DVD, and I'm loving it! It's fantastic, flawless, a... Posted by on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:56:00 GMT |
Movie - In America |
Until today, I had resisted watching the movie, "In America," because of the triteness of the title. Even the UK and Brazilian titles, respectively "East of Harlem" and "Terra dos Sonhos" (Land ... Posted by on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:25:00 GMT |
Age of Accountability |
It is the end of something, adulthood, though none of us knows that when it happens. Metaphorically, it is a vague death and an even more uncertain rebirth. It is fundamental to the human ... Posted by on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:54:00 GMT |
Seven weird habits/things about me |
Continuing the game.... below are the rules.
The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "seven weird habits/things about me" and people who get tagged need to write a blog about their seven... Posted by on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:03:00 GMT |