after all this, lets wrap our arms around the wind

The rain was building in your eyes and there was nothing I could do, my hand resting helplessly on your back, your frame shaking like a reed in too much wind. I wanted to give you happiness, like it was a bird I could rest on you shoulder, but  we both knew that was for [...]

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the earth is warm and dark and sweet

I want to make my life a work of art. Its this grand obsession I have, like the little kid at the beach who wants to make his sand-castle the biggest and the most beautiful. Jeuvenille, I know. Sometimes I wonder if I spend way too much time questioning, dipping my toes into the cold [...]

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and please remember your silver sloshing rainwater shoes

The rain is splintering softly on these foggy gown’d fields and you are somewhere telling yourself that it is not enough to just watch.
These red lipped gypsy dancing leaves are what you are to me.
Sink into the earth beside me and we will drink  into our lungs all that we have loved (our hearts turning [...]

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the world is a bright red apple orchard

Don’t cloud my mind with thoughts of better things. I’m here, let the wind blow my grassy mind. Wherever I am, there is always somewhere better, wherever I go other people will be happier- but isn’t that the world?
Somewhere people are falling in love. Somewhere people are watching their loved ones die. But thats the [...]

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A Brief Commemoration to Those Who Died on September 11th

I am writing this to you,
You who will never read this.
I am writing to tell you that the world is still beautiful, and that people still dance and make love and kiss their children on the foreheads.
We still haven’t quite figured out what we’re here for or why life can get so fucked up.
But tonight [...]

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