I don’t even know what this is.

I’m just curious: Was my mother EVER sick when I was a kid? I mean, there were at least six of us in the house at any given moment, and I know that we had our share of viruses. I’m sure we were predictably whiny and pathetic as she tossed us kleenex boxes and told [...]

Reading Update: Diane di Prima

My friend Sasha gave me her copy of Diane di Prima’s Memoirs of a Beatnik for my birthday. I think she bought it at a secondhand store during her freshman year in college. There are marks in the margins, which I completely adore, even though they’re not Sasha’s. She’s a relatively new friend who’s recently [...]

We Will Become Silhouettes

madeline: at the risk of sounding like an asshole, why do dudes feel the need to fall into extreme like with me?
is it because i’m unavailable emotionally? because i don’t fall over myself to make them commit–in fact, just the opposite?
because, really, i think i’m like the perfect sex partner in that regard.
and seriously, if [...]

Attention:

To the lady sitting in the middle of the supermarket parking lot today–just sitting there in your car, not signaling a turn, yet flashing the universal signal for “asshole” at everyone who beeped their horn at you–just blocking traffic and looking all mean:
I’m sorry you’re having a rough day. Maybe tomorrow will be better. Until [...]

(mī’grān’)

I should have known something was wrong when I met Jen and her husband for lunch (my birthday, their treat) and despite not having eaten since dinner, I couldn’t finish a cup of soup and half a sandwich. Then later I turned on the oven to preheat and set to mixing the final batch of [...]

Note to Self:

Before sending your DVD player with your children and their father for the weekend, always ensure you’ve remembered to remove the porn.
That would have been embarrassing.

Narnia

This morning, when driving through the woods on our way to school Miles exclaimed, “Momma, the snow is so beautiful on the trees!”
“It really is gorgeous, huh?”
“Uh-huh. It looks just like Narnia!”

Not New, Just That Dude in Red Trousers = Yum.

Non Li Amo

You call and ask if I’m free tonight, “…a long shot, I know.”
I’ve just been fucked like a bitch by my love as three others watched and came, their come swirling together, homogenizing in a pool at the small of my back.
I do not return your call.
I return to our bed where life is still [...]

closer

sleeping-death weighted
leg slung across pale softness
i will never move.