While waiting for my bus, I saw one of the most beautiful women I know ( Read more... )

Tonight the air rests on my skin, warm and heavy ( Read more... )

I stare into mirrors while tilting my head at different angles. This is not to see what I look like from every angle. Really, it's just to find the angle that I feel the least dissatisfied with. Then I make the ugliest faces I can at the mirror until I feel a little happier inside, and move along ( Read more... )

There is a certain quality of light that seems to belong solely to autumn. It's like the world tints gold and amber. It only seems to happen in the late afternoon. Summer has a similar phenomenon, but everything in summer lives in the sheen of a heat haze. Autumn's cold air lends an edge to everything. For a short time, everything is crisp and ( Read more... )

I'm going to do NaNoWriMo this year. I have no idea what I'm going to write about, but I do have a week or so to figure it out. I can always go through my old writing ideas and wing it from there. I'll think of something. I just need to start writing again. I've had a dry spell of almost a year. I miss writing, but I've been pretty useless ( Read more... )

I guess I am getting older or something ( Read more... )

This time of some of my favorite poems in the WHOLE WORLD (not in any particular order).

You don't have to read them. But I highly recommend you do. Because they are beautiful things. I REALLY, REALLY recommend all of Theodore Roethke. He is my newest favorite poet. Also, Marge Piercy's poem is the neatest poem about womanhood, EVER. So, here ( Read more... )

It's pretty strange, actually. Every so often, I open up my Spam folder to sift through it. I am usually searching for lost e-mails or for odd offers. I look for anything that strikes my fancy.

Lately, whenever I've gone through it, I have been finding porn e-mails with book excerpts in them. About da Vinci, specifically. Like this one:

"Giorgio ( Read more... )

I wish I wrote on here more. I wish I wrote more. The solution? To write more. Ahh, silly me ( Read more... )