it’s been a hell of a year for shorty. simultaneously the best and worst year ever. I’m glad it’s over, sort of shocked I survived it, and ready to write about it. it started around, well I guess the new year always begins at midnight, right? Mountain Standard Time. so, I’m backstage at Boombox, dancing in this […]
A few years ago, I shared my poetry on the radio. I’m hoping to do another show this fall with my new work. As time passes, I write more rhythmically, less abstractly, and the subject matter changes. from the style and rhetoric of transcendentalism, and literary prose, to hip hop and urban decay, what i […]
the artist danced with me; impromptu. at the close of day. i said, tell me what you know: “i use my imagination for better things than fear now” he, eloquent, and i, wandering heard :::everything.::: lull~abye birds, wind, exhale, fluttering, fleeting, beating, heart. & believed, finally. that, even i, was, could be. a flower in God’s […]
find the things that make you happy & do them often. active verbs: playing piano, dancing, biking, hooping (basketball & hula), laughing, writing, reading, singing, walking, helping, caring, sharing, moving, doing, cooking, creating, hiking, scrapbooking, swimming, thinking. from dawn to dusk strings of the heart ought to release chords of “carpe diem” cause that’s a […]
i am a tree and a tear and a concert at the courthouse playing for peace. they say heaven is all around you but there is no respect some days to witness. where are ideas of family, community tranquility? before the show begins you should pray to the deity that made your soul transcend what […]
The man sings his song to capitalism on the corner of Pennsylvania and 21st, “Ice cold water! One dollar!” And whilst the shakers just move and shuffle beyond, he proclaims still. Where does Jesus stand in the midst of despair in the land that is free, brave and blessed? Perhaps he serenades his love through […]
Young people percolate through the pores of the lack of existence. Knives and sticks and stones build strong structures and solidify souls. Again all nearly embracing freedom both of and from fear. I am inspired by the movements of the mind more than the body. So, fight war not wars and instantly resonate through fear […]
We hold all the tools in such a manner that we think we can control or understand the plumbing of the earth. Yet the contraptions and mechanisms are not within our grasp. Again, we turn to Emerson, we are the tools we have created. This far over-reaching extension of humanity traps our souls. Indeed, even […]
I’ve begun to realize that indeed we are not alone. All around the world, diverse peoples, populations, and cultures exist, but we are all the same in our desires. It is like clouds and water and ice; all the same and all different. And it can be still or moving, or frozen, but it is […]
