Monthly Archive: May 2016

step one

helps to say it “my life has become unmanageable” oh that’s what happening removing the reaction powerless over the timeframe powerless over the construction I can clean and I can garden I can write...

swarm

juxtapose my foul mood sweating and stewing over moving an interminable pile of sticks down the hill as part of “Project Clean Yard” and the mystical event happening on the other side of the...

fantasy, reality

many rooms three bedrooms one and a half baths one – or two? offices – maybe three another three bedrooms another one and a half baths basement workshop hospital room hospice funeral home two...

abstract rooms

looking at the walls and angles ceiling stairs and trim comparing paint colors of the slightest different hue looking at the accumulation of dust and undone details all the plaster crumbs noticing multitudes of...

two giant horses

real estate agents return I’m better prepared for their determined assault on everything undone yes, there’s a lot, yes, I know I should remove black plastic from the yard their obsession with bland bland...

irish and italian

early call with working group woke up two hours before alarm thus exceedingly sleepy on my way home and didn’t want to cook Savor pizza energizes as always started conversation with a cop in...

moving the hive

challenge: move a Warré hive down the hill without tipping, stumbling, getting stung solution: straps holding boxes together, carrying sticks attached to sides, screen pinned over entrance at 4:30 am when bees stay inside...