I. 'you
were logical and proven
but still be quiet as if
I were used to you; as if
you would never leave me
and were the inexorable
product of my own time.'
frank o'hara

II. 'We miles ( Read more... )

and love too, has ruined us

they just don't know that the things that occupy the space consist of highways and aspen trees. they don't know so they can't understand what it's like when there's nothing else past afternoon light and that need to share a kitchen or blueberry hills. so how can we blame them; oh, how can we even place the blame? if we were cunning linguists, ( Read more... )

i had a dream that you called me and you were crying and i fought to run to my room so we could talk and i didn't know how to tell you i asked you to hurt and it felt so terrible and i started to cry because i don't want you to have to feel like that. there was nothing wrong, all you did was love and love and love ( Read more... )

'i have always loved too much,
or not enough.'
dorianne laux
for my birthday, the greatest person in the entire world gave up a weekend and drove in to see me. she surprised me yesterday in my art class with balloons and brownies, and when i saw her i screamed at the top of my lungs and nearly knocked her over because i ran so quickly. i couldn't ( Read more... )

and i've looked all day (under cushions and around corners) but i still do not feel that i have the right words or look on my face to feel like i've done anything. i have nothing of comfort (like someone else's cigarettes, blue eyes or an old friend). i cannot even cover the inches of yesterday's snow outside my window with pleated blinds or ( Read more... )

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'Much has passed between us or was it always only ( Read more... )

at work on saturday, i had a handsome young man from a table, as he was leaving, ask for a pen. he took one of the business cards and hustled around to the other side of the hostess stand, behind the lamp, where i couldn't really see. of course i thought nothing of it. but as his table's taxi pulled up, he looked at me and kind of closed-mouthed ( Read more... )