Sometimes I remember little things
Like getting lake water up my nose while I’m swimming at my grandparent’s cabin
With the sun on my back
And my hair plastered against my neck
Or
The smell of my mum cooking dinner in the winter
While I’m dancing in the living room
With all the lights on because it’s already dark at 5:00pm
And they [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Squishing into the Volkswagen Vanagon
Posted in Thought on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Grace
Posted in Image on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Deciding on Fate
Posted in Thought on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wasn’t prepared for this,
She said
Love was supposed to be this endless amount of sky you just kept falling into
Instead life’s given me a fork in the road
And love is the gravel option on the left,
Where you know your vehicle will get dirty
The drive will be bumpy
And you don’t know where it will end up,
But
The [...]
Teeter Totter
Posted in Image, Thought on July 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The things we made out of what we had:
Soup for Pilgrims and Indians out of sticks and rainwater
The Olympics out of a trampoline and a rope swing
A classroom out of dolls and a chalkboard in the basement
Archaeological digs out of an unfinished foundation of a house
Villages out of moss
People out of the air and trees
Race [...]
Trying to Disappear
Posted in Image on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Vehicle
Posted in Thought on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You tell me to give you words
Simple as that
Open my mouth and tell you what’s been hardening itself
Inside of me
But
We have not all been blessed
With the gift of giving language flight
My thoughts tend to burrow their way into paper and hide
So when I need to communicate
Anger
Or sadness
Or a good day
I sit Indian style on my [...]
