The beginning of something... It’s been at least thirty years since I last experienced a tornado. The tell-tale greening of the sticky summer sky and the distant wail of warning sirens are familiar waypoints I look and listen for when crossing the landscape of memory. I can travel as far back as first grade, in … Continue reading Storm Chasing
Poetry of Parenthood
I get some pretty sideways looks when I tell people I'm writing a master's thesis on the poetry of parenthood. Don't get me wrong, occasionally someone thinks that's cool, though most of the time they send me stuff like this strip from Matthew Inman's hilarious webcomic The Oatmeal . Props though to Joan Kane for instead … Continue reading Poetry of Parenthood
At Least One Kidney
a token or two scavenged from the wild gone feral friday night two hours pacing dark tide creeping beach bisected by creeks ribbons of black ice come morning a whole frozen liver at least one kidney on the rug saturday sickday deer fur hide signs of what's to come monday i know a leash could … Continue reading At Least One Kidney
2 starts
2 starts, both fall into the item cat <far from profound> </end speculation> order of operations i'm perpetually taking things apart that I put together prematurely always skipping what seem like poorly written instructions that turn out to be essential maybe i should look at this deck like a math problem maybe this life too … Continue reading 2 starts
Recent Reads
Once upon a time when not writing I at least would take some time to jot notes about the good words I was filling my brain with so let's give that a shot again. Once upon a time I also used to write list poems building on the riff, 'while you were smoking' and I'd … Continue reading Recent Reads
Jonas Lamb 