It’s the time of year where the ghosts will begin haunting my hot tea and leaving the full glasses of orange juice alone. It’s time for lingering transition from lemonades and iced teas to apple ciders and salted caramels;…
Tag: Full Marathon
Magnum Opus
Hour Four Outlining plans with graphite tracing the intent- gradients of charcoal delineate from our preconceived form an insult to our potential. Our attempts to take over and mold over the wire mesh construction- half-hearted clay structure unassuming to the crack from the heat of…
2023 Full Marathon: Hour 5
Hour 5: Sip on Summer – thank you Starbucks – this was your slogan for summer of 2017 or 2018 and it is living in my brain rent free every summer since then. Also Pumpkin spice came out way too early this year – or…
The Stripper
Hour Three 1:23 Layers droop precariously from form like draperies obscuring the world from the frame I had held like photograph- with peeling laminate ironed over like wax paper leaves and never comes back. The covers fall from mattresses skirting the hardwood floors methylene chloride…
Belonging
Belonging Searching forever for a home My soul belonging nowhere and everywhere All at the same time My life like a jigsaw Made of thousands of tiny moments Some fitting together, some twisted beyond what the eye can see My heart missing a beat Scared…
Hour 4: Write a poem about the topic of marriage, without ever using the word marriage, and while also ideally avoiding the words spouse, husband, and wife.
Point B and Point A facing opposite poles on the same mattressed board strings attached silent words convoluted phrases that meander into the sea of nothingness “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said…
The Change Of Heart
Hour Two Rays of sunshine pierce through the fabric of hope like hot daggers searing cauterizing the wounds of winter’s blush melting the ventricles of a heart’s cold season when the chamber doors had closed like an iron fist. A heart that beats with filagree…
Dawning Wishes – Hour Three
Dawning Wishes The sunlight peeks through the clearing Of the trees that align with the road The morning ahead, at last, nearing With all of its greatness bestowed The hopes and the dreams of tomorrow Now present to start on their way For time is…
2023 Full Marathon: Hour 3
Hour 3: Missing the Veranda We still buy coffee from the green siren that bears the same name – but we live in a completely different place with an entirely new environment – we have a porch but less of a view. We…
2023 Hour 2:
Coffee at Sunrise HOUR 2: 7am The majestic wonder – sky fire is beginning to peak throug hthe window. My guests are missing the beauty – but if I’m being honest they see it more often than I do these days. I’ll just remind…