Monthly Archives: November 2015

When the moon rises
and it seems to shrink
into the vastness of the sky
Remember everything is relative
What appears vital to its very rise is not
Someone somewhere else cries
about their moon your dust
Emotions envelop us
If the world were a big lever
we could feel sorry for ourselves
Instead it is a vista
and we are wherever we are
hammering a not lever
Hammer [...]

Today the sun should rise later
alarm clocks should stay off
and someone else should be the cairn
The bound up roll of yarn
should unravel and
I should once again
let laughter take over
hold nothing back
Today I should linger
on edges too intense
and glance and glance and glance

In a cooking class
students make banana pudding
I watch from the sidelines
imagining the soccer mom
I will someday be
The atmosphere of a slumber party settles in
giggling and turn taking
I ask if they like baking
Someone says she loves to bake cake
but that’s only if her mother gets food stamps
Others nod along
I will my facial muscles
to conceal any [...]