Poem 4/13/15

New lyric cento, took lines from one of my 2013 summer playlists: Down, down, baby, down by the rollercoaster It seems this game is neverending The winter stayed inside the shade Who’s gonna say a little grace for me? Out on the sea we’d be forgiven What did Harvard teach you? When we were kids […]

Poem 4/12/15

Rows of kousa line the pan and steams beneath aluminum ceilings. Steep knee-deep in tomato sauce known as Arabic spices. Secret infusions stuff words back in mouths, an apple in a roasted pig. Nobody obtains knowledge of the sumac the red pepper or paprika or a pinch of something in the tomato paste we ingest […]

Poem 4/10/15

I pan the skies to locate frogs flying through the rebel cold fronts. Skies tinged with patient windsocks billowing north and then to west. I watched acacias bloom before an instant later eaten like kids pull the buds from broccoli, leaving naked stalks, but this time with plastic bags and cloths wrapped in the spiky […]

Poem 4/2/15

Squirrel walking tightrope is all too common But today I see a silhouetted reflection Upside down and scuttling like stop-action Animation, the one time craze of snowball kitsch To lighten serious discussions involving self-worth.

Moving Quotation

“We celebrated at El Tercer Hombre with the entire group until dawn, as an advance party for my next birthday, for Germán Vargas, who was the guardian of the saints’ calendar, let it be known that on March 6 I would be twenty-seven years old. In the midst of the good wishes of my great […]

Poem 4/16/14

the 70-degree midnight sound of crickets squeaks in and settles onto the damp patches of emptiness, sky indigo and littered with fireflies and constellations traced with fingers.

Poem 4/2/14

Thank you, Mary, for the haiku! Sitting in the park A dog runs up and bites me. Now I have rabies.

Another Radiohead Moment

This song reminds me a lot about 2008. A lot. It’s also good backdrop for a gully-washer of an afternoon:

O Video

By popular demand (which is one person), I have placed a link here to the song I mentioned in my previous post. Even those who have YouTube banned in his/her country will be able to weasel around the prohibitions with the help of a proxy, at least I think one still can. I tried to […]

The best thing ever!

I know that I have done a lot of music posts, but that is what I’ve been wrapping my mind around when I’m not entrenched with graduate school in(s)anity. There will be times when I shall once again describe travel debacles and provide decent exposés in that regard. Little Joy is a band that — […]