Poem, snippets and essays of my life

Tag: Family

  • Go to the woods

    Go to the woods

    When things seem bad and the world is incomprehensible, fires burn, and people rage, head to the woods. Stand under a tree. Walk slowly. When you leave, you’ll be a different person.

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  • Death

    Death A magician is called to the bedside. He opens his coat, its lining revealed shiny like a young minnow. Snaps it around the waiting soul, then unfurls it up to the sky. The murmuration happens. A round of applause crackles as you lift into the light. There are black and fragile wings, no bodies,

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  • Award

    Nobel Peace Prize The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors, for its efforts “to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.” The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised the group today “for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.” The organization

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  • Remotes in General

    Remotes in General

    Poetry prompts Things to consider when buying a remote Alaskan property: How interesting are you to yourself? Could you actually shoot a bear? Would you keep repeating the word, “Caribou Caribou Caribou” to yourself until you actually saw one? Have you ever rubbed two sticks together to cause fire? Are you scared of the dark?

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  • Today I began by reading how to escape from quicksand. I think these kinds of articles are really important to begin the day with if you have anxiety. First of all, it doesn’t matter that you may never encounter quicksand. The important thing is that you know how to escape it. Now you can laugh.

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  • Ocean Eyes

        Dear Billy Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell: When I first heard “Ocean Eyes” I couldn’t believe that someone finally understood how I’ve been feeling stuck in this house with my family. Your song made my heart vibrate and spread inside my chest and out my feet and I don’t even think I could walk

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  • Blessing and a Curse

    I always know what people think. This is a blessing and a curse. Its akin to saying I am never wrong but thankfully I stopped doing that a few years ago. I was once in Walmart with my mom before she died looking for nails, hammers, and hooks. She had never been to Walmart and

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  • Celebration

    It is the Fourth of July and the flags in the neighborhood look worn, the colors faded after many years of exposure to the elements and attics. People buy potato chips and beer and hotdogs and hamburgers and wine in boxes. People buy hairspray and Maybelline mascara and Old Spice deodorant and condoms. People buy

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  • Resume

    It doesn’t say on my résumé, how many times my heart has been broken or what it felt like when my daughter died and when I lost my biggest dog, I didn’t know how to move him. Not only did I not know how to move him I didn’t know where to put him. That’s

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  • Trees

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