When I am cut down and harvested for planks and burls, and someone counts my rings, they’ll see a rich, dark ring circa March 2018 through September 2019. Those 17-18 months were potent. March 11, 2018 I broke up with my girlfriend, and launched into a period of personal growth. I moved out and sold…

I have felt something this week in my body, a bounce in my step. While cleaning the kitchen this morning I thought, Oh–is is that I’m listening to more music? Before that, my working hypothesis was: earlier this week I felt a tickle in my throat so I took half a dose of night-time cold…

there’s a decapitated rabbit in the yard, y’all

It is Sofa King cold in our house. It’s fine until the wind blows, and the temperature sinks to below 20. I went to plug in the Keurig yesterday and there was a blast of cold air as if the A/C was on–but it’s just that somewhere between the siding and the wood paneling of…

This was the bargain evangelicals and republicans made with the devil: bow to Trump as their God and savior and he will install anti-choice judges at the Supreme court to repeal Roe v Wade. All the justices knew the score, knew what their roles were. And the Faustian cost is well underway. The “pro-life” movement is all…

Robert Bly’s departure wounds me. I have spent so many hours with his voice and his words. His poems were some of the first I read apart from an assignment, and among the first to hum at my soul’s frequency; in his writing I found validation for my weirdness, and for my short poems. I’ve…

I think I need to use this time in the mornings when Juniper is off doing her own things–even if that means all the LEGOs get dump-trucked across the house or Wendell is fed yogurt from the palm of her hands. I’m exaggerating, I’m not glued to my chair, but for example right now she…

1. Today was the first time taking my kid to the playland at Burger King. The smell of a play place is something else–off-gassing hardened plastic and rubber plus sweat and socks and char-broiled burgers and onion rings and ketchup and static electricity. It’s a particular smell, like Mine Ride or Indoor Skate Rink or…

the neighbor texted to say his trail cam caught a wolf today, but the other neighbor said his Dutch Shepherd got loose. I was hoping for a wolf.