December 2011
20 posts
2012 -- I'm comin' for ya! :)
Bring it all on: Books and books and hours of writing and late-night dance parties and new yoga poses and Chocolove and deep kisses and Kirtan and tattoos and fast driving and LETTING IT THE FUCK OUT and friends, friends, friends. Ciao, 2011… it was a fine affair, but now it’s over. ;)
“Like any other man I was born with a knife in one hand and a wound in the other....”
– Gregory Orr
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Book Of Music by Jack Spicer
Coming at an end, the lovers
Are exhausted like two swimmers. Where
Did it end? There is no telling. No love is
Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries
From which two can emerge exhausted, nor long goodbye
Like death.
Coming at an end. Rather, I would say, like a length
Of coiled rope
Which does not disguise in the final twists of its lengths
Its endings.
But, you...
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons by Christopher...
If not for flesh’s pretty paint, we’re just a bunch of skeletons, working hard to deny the fact of bones. Teeth remind me that we die. That’s why I never smile, except when looking at a picture of a ghost, captured by a camera lens, in a book about the paranormal. When someone takes a picture of a spirit, it gives me hope. I admire the ones who refuse to go away. Lovers scorned...
“We like work that breaks the heart. That leaves us in a place that we don’t...”
– Burnside Review (on submissions)
In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver
Capped my night with a beautiful yoga class, tea/good conversation with a friend, and now… this:
Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment, the long tapers of cattails are bursting and floating away over the blue shoulders of the ponds, and every pond, no matter what its name is, is nameless now. Every...
“1) “Jeanette, if you didn’t have six consecutive orgasms within one...”
– Janisimo (my mother) on Life. Love. Stress. and Set-backs. Yes.
“Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.”
– Henry Miller (via dylansp)
If you came blessed with a heart that can break, you’re lucky.
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Elliot
In a Beautiful Country by Kevin Prufer
A good way to fall in love
is to turn off the headlights
and drive very fast down dark roads.
Another way to fall in love
is to say they are only mints
and swallow them with a strong drink.
Then it is autumn in the body.
Your hands are cold.
Then it is winter and we are still at war.
The gold-haired girl is singing into your ear
about how we live in a beautiful country.
Snow sifts from the...
FYI: Love isn’t supposed to be placid. Relationships are flawed and messy because *people* are flawed and messy. If you can’t stomach a little neediness/vulnerability… if you bolt when the less attractive aspects of your girlfriend’s personality begin to surface… if you expect your relationships with women to be consistently and...
“Thanks for listening to me complain about my cushy, alienated life.”
– Six Feet Under
“Your penis. Is kinda nice. Too bad you’re attached to it.”
– Six Feet Under
