(For Dalinda) 30 April 2008
If you do a midlife crisis right
You get to reinvent yourself.
What feels like F4 chaos at first is just
The amputation of labels,
Façade extraction,
Annihilation of preconceived notions.
And then, like strolling through an identity mall,
You get to shop for the new you.
Sister, daughter, mother . . .
Those were never far away [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Genesis
Posted in Poetry on May 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hens and Chicks
Posted in Observational Prose, tagged FLDS, freedom on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am looking out my window on a rainy afternoon. A hen and her five chicks are pecking around under the bird feeder just 15 feet from where I now sit.
They have escaped. They came from the yard two houses over where the neighbors I have not met (nor want to) breed fighting cocks. They found a [...]
Haiku — North Carolina, October 2006
Posted in Poetry, tagged haiku, Poetry on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bird perches on branch.
Bird and branch sway in the wind.
Bird is not afraid.
On Visiting the Biltmore
Posted in Poetry, tagged Biltmore, North Carolina, Poetry on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
62 bedrooms for a family of three.
A dining room bigger than the footprint of my house.
The view from the master’s suite alone worth every untaxed penny.
And I could live in that library.
I push 1-4, following the directive of the blueprint map, and learn
the red and white chess set once belonged
to Napolean (Bonaparte, not Jones, the [...]
The Fifth Spring
Posted in Observational Prose, tagged Change, Nature, Personal Growth on May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I never really appreciated change until I stood still. When you’re moving, moving things seem motionless. Like going down the highway at 65 miles per hour right next to a car going precisely 65 miles per hour, your own journey and those journeys taking place around you can seem almost imperceptible.
Until I [...]
