Sometimes being an adult is annoying ( Read more... )

Walking up the hill today
My mind miserable in other times:
Lamenting the past,
Fearing the future,
(Forgetting the present,)
I drag my feet until it is
Time to cross Broadway Avenue.
I always look both ways,
First right,
Then left.
Then:
Oh!
The sunrise!

"There is a you and an I and yet no mine
and yours! -- Remarkable! -- without you and I
there is no love; yet with mine and yours -- no love."

~Allen Hoey, excerpt from "Essay on Snow."

today on the train
on my way home
i'd forgotten my book
and so instead
stared at people's feet.
i sat across from a woman
in shiny bright red shoes
and next to a girl
who looked a lot like me
only she had
teal-painted toenails.
she seemed fascinated
in whatever her boyfriend was doing.
i hope
she is fascinated
by her teal toenails, too.

I ride on public transportation a lot ( Read more... )

Shh, listen. The day is gray and hushing ( Read more... )

it is so hard to watch someone
waste her potential
especially
when that someone
is staring back at you
from the mirror.

i cover the wood ( Read more... )

all i remember
is sitting on the floor
of the art room
holding my sister's hand.

all i could think of
(looking and my right hand
clasped by my left)
is how someone's hand
is now empty.

one of my very favorite ( Read more... )