Monthly Archives: February 2016

PGIO (Leap Day)

Posted on February 29, 2016 by sputterpub

I give myself today to make me feel a little better at tomorrow’s start. I’ll give me that one, too, and I’ll appeal to me for one more day to add a part of permanence to what I feel today … Continue reading →

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The Climber

Posted on February 26, 2016 by sputterpub

An alabaster tower spears the sky, its inner walls of mercury and sand, and crawling up the outside like a fly, the climber uses foot and brain and hand. She lives within and studies out within, and waits without awaiting … Continue reading →

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Raindrops

Posted on February 25, 2016 by sputterpub

Like drops of liquid platinum, that slick against my face is morning winter rain. Transparent beads of mercury as quick as silver Hermes walks me to the train. Unusual is how I feel today. Atypical has passed near half a … Continue reading →

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Guillotine

Posted on February 24, 2016 by sputterpub

Of course Alice has thought about death before. It first occurred to her when she was five. She remembers being taught to recite the child’s bedtime prayer (Now I lay me down to sleep – I pray the Lord my … Continue reading →

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Imposition

Posted on February 23, 2016 by sputterpub

A space invader’s knocking at my heart. A thief of time insinuates his plan till I remember why I live apart, and how I took to life without a man. I’m absolutely monarch in my room, the only place where … Continue reading →

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Sunrise After Hail

Posted on February 22, 2016 by sputterpub

The light this morning comes as a surprise, in rays of gold both young and warm, oblique into the plants, the trees, my weary eyes, in shafts of color strong as I am weak. A flashlight held beneath a camper’s … Continue reading →

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Time Out

Posted on February 19, 2016 by sputterpub

I’ve never been at ease among a crowd. I like the city but I can’t ignore the silent screams around me, some as loud as ominous vignettes in dream, the score of desperate pantomime, a headache’s hum. The antsiness of … Continue reading →

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Time In

Posted on February 18, 2016 by sputterpub

My mental health requires time and space to be alone, away from folk and noise, when I can bide in my internal place and let release the power it enjoys to synthesize the purchase of each sense, attend the rhythm … Continue reading →

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Once Upon a Place

Posted on February 17, 2016 by sputterpub

Once upon a time, in a cul-de-sac realm, not far from a freeway exchange and an outlet mall, there lived a monarch, his queen, and their three daughters. Theirs was a normal, functional family, for its time: the monarch was … Continue reading →

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Hybrid

Posted on February 16, 2016 by sputterpub

I’ve known a lanky man a couple years and learned to loved him, now and then, a bit, although his laugh is irksome to my ears, although his manner’s inappropriate. I’ve known another now a dozen weeks, a guy so … Continue reading →

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