Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Day 30: Untitled Haiku Celebrating the End of NaPoWriMo

how wind plays with things:
oceans, prayer flags, roses,
and my salty smile

Day 29: Anniversary

anniversary - originally the day of someone's death
We died for each other
we are one after all
and a divorce would be just one more anniversary
so let's not talk about it anymore.

anniversary - to turn
I have turned toward you
I have turned in to you
and a divorce would mean turning aside
So let's not talk about it anymore.

aaniversary - a returning
We keep turning, over and around
it will return, just as loving does
So let's talk anniversaries

anniversary - a celebration of grit
of turning on and turned on
turning the handle and turning around again
turn to me. Today, turn again to me.

Day 28: Three to Go

words from page 73 of the nearest book

dropping my mood from the indigo gloom to a rosier room
I, once incensed, now unfist the muscle of my mind and hesitantly find
a faint pulse line, a turquoise vein, dropping inspiration into stagnant pain
on the verge of a glow, from a well a creature waves, and I know
the face at the bottom looking up at my own is my own,and
I am the well, and I am the fine, and this face of mine is the questioning kind.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Day 27: Waiting For the End of April


The bench, where lovers have met since lovers began,
and lovers write poems for lovers,
and time trades lovers for lovers,
and new lovers wait for their lovers,
the bench,
is half frozen.

Day 26: For Wu Singh

You, black time
you ghost of my thirties
you who whisper my name in nightmares
I don't love you anymore
swallow.
I love the colors of the fog on the water
and her hair in my hand in the middle of the night

Monday, April 23, 2012

Day 25: Rose Parade

"You're the Rose Parade!
a vivid fragrant party
everyone sleeps through."

Day 24: Indian Wells

"Writing is a way of saying you and the world have a chance." Richard Hugo

I look up into desert darkness
and bathe my lungs in native air
It's when the rocky bare
mountains are unseen that they're most beautiful.
I wonder if it's the same with me.