1) Today, while staying after school to choreograph, I glanced up the stairway leading to the upstairs room and noticed the other door at the top of the stairs, the one that was always locked, was open. Virtually everyone had left by then to take advantage of the half day and I was alone in the room. I walked through the open door; the stairs ( Read more... )

Even through the summer storm, by Carol Clark Williams ( Read more... )

1) So this afternoon, I found a giant box of stickers I’ve had since I was about six. And guess what? They were still mostly sticky! Oh, man, I totally felt like Max from Where the Wild Things Are when he sailed back through months and weeks and a day and found out his dinner was still hot! You know that feeling, man? Well, anyway, there were these ( Read more... )

( A poem about the PARALLELS between science and religion. )

"I think I just stopped writing poetry forever. Or, at least, for a very extended period of time. I feel as if it's gotten to be too complicated for me, like the more beautiful and poetic I try to make it, the farther away it gets from the truth; and conversely, the more truthful I try to make it, the farther away it gets from being beautiful.

In ( Read more... )

What a shame, because I am a walking corpse tonight ( Read more... )

A poem about a girl who fell into her washing machine, except it's more than that. I was talking to sweetlyxabsurdabout this poem, except I lost the paper I'd written the original on, and then completely forgot how it went besides. So I totally re-wrote it. Under an lj-cut because it's very desultory and abstruse and you shouldn't be subject to it unless you ( Read more... )

1) Harmony gave me a rose today! She grew a miniature rose plant and took one of the flowers to school and later she told me she planned to give it away to someone before the day was over...she's too nice, haha. I'm not used to people being that nice. It made me feel weird, so I purposely let my hand linger on the metal handle of the screen door ( Read more... )

the day i grew up, was it ever real ( Read more... )

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