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March 12, 2015
And a Perfectly Sore Throat
Here's the piece that was accepted and published by Quiet Lightning earlier this month incase nobody saw it.
And a Perfectly Sore Throat.
When he said water, it sounded like wetter, though he wasn’t wrong in doing so.
We went throat singing on the last day of the year.
We did it at the end of the river, like the end of the river, into the lake.
We were told about the gift of extra sighs, that shallow lungs too often give.
All of the different ways we can and cannot breathe.
We met a man with...
And a Perfectly Sore Throat.
When he said water, it sounded like wetter, though he wasn’t wrong in doing so.
We went throat singing on the last day of the year.
We did it at the end of the river, like the end of the river, into the lake.
We were told about the gift of extra sighs, that shallow lungs too often give.
All of the different ways we can and cannot breathe.
We met a man with...
March 1, 2015
Poor excuse for escape
You left out, those guilty sounds
like flowers on a stage
do you imagine running
can you imagine leaving today
cause I’ve seen you wear, that record down
the needle’s dizzy now, time won’t help it play
coughing backwards, these liturgies sputter out
wrestled best, stomping feet, kicking legs
I can hear your boots, down my hallway -will you
hum the elegy, that keeps us safe
there’s a- smarter way, to rob a bank
there’s a- faster car, there’s your getaway
Here’s your turnaround
your best sins,...
like flowers on a stage
do you imagine running
can you imagine leaving today
cause I’ve seen you wear, that record down
the needle’s dizzy now, time won’t help it play
coughing backwards, these liturgies sputter out
wrestled best, stomping feet, kicking legs
I can hear your boots, down my hallway -will you
hum the elegy, that keeps us safe
there’s a- smarter way, to rob a bank
there’s a- faster car, there’s your getaway
Here’s your turnaround
your best sins,...
February 27, 2015
Warning Labels
She wanted to understand what he meant when he said he couldn’t. His Edith of hope rested on the ninth stair of the fifth hotel they tried that night.
“They’re all booked, there is nothing else, nothing left.”
He started to move away but she tugged on the tip of his tie, and within seconds became a ballast to the uneven lean she placed on the heel of her left stiletto. Only weak enough to give his doubt out freely, he fell backwards upon her grasp, then found himself on the eighth stair, a...
“They’re all booked, there is nothing else, nothing left.”
He started to move away but she tugged on the tip of his tie, and within seconds became a ballast to the uneven lean she placed on the heel of her left stiletto. Only weak enough to give his doubt out freely, he fell backwards upon her grasp, then found himself on the eighth stair, a...
February 26, 2015
The most selfish thing I will ever write?
It wasn’t, at first, my idea. I can come to blame, if I must, this selfishness, upon an album released in the year 2000. Designing a Nervous Breakdown by The Anniversary changed a lot for me. The sincerity, the passion, the undeniable ability to sell these few beautiful truths. Track 4, The D in Detroit, came on shuffle while I caught sight, from behind, what could have been me, though perhaps younger. It wasn’t. I was here, driving. But I thought about myself, when I first listened to this s...
February 24, 2015
The Weekenders
San Francisco Book ReviewGives Your Smallest Bones 5/5 Stars! Reading on Monday March 2nd at WeWork Golden Gate- The kind people of Quiet Lightning have gone about publishing a new poem of mine and I will be reading it at the books release party. Click here for info!
Monday March 2nd-WeWork Golden Gate- 25Taylor Street SF, CA- Doors at 7:00- $5-$10 cover-
includes free Lagunitas IPA -I read last.
Dave Eggers is a very kind fellow... I sent him a book, I thought he might like one, I've read his,...
Monday March 2nd-WeWork Golden Gate- 25Taylor Street SF, CA- Doors at 7:00- $5-$10 cover-
includes free Lagunitas IPA -I read last.
Dave Eggers is a very kind fellow... I sent him a book, I thought he might like one, I've read his,...
February 15, 2015
12 songs that open with the vitality of a great story.
Since a great deal of my influence comes from lyrically strong songs instead of books, I thought I would make a list of songs that begin lyrically with such vitality they could just as well be the beginning of short stories or novels. Do you know any songs that begin with a lyrical hook that make you wish you were reading them instead of listening? Or wish that it was a book on tape with a musical background?
1. Right away great Captain- Memories from a shore
After I ate I went outside to...
1. Right away great Captain- Memories from a shore
After I ate I went outside to...
February 3, 2015
Today will be a quiet day
Dear Amy
I am writing you in sincere thanks. Twelve years ago I picked up a used copy of Reasons to Live. After reading and rereading all of your stories your work has taught me the proper rhythm and sound of thoughts when they transpire to language. You are by far one of my strongest influences among Kundera, Carver, and Munro. This book does not exist without you. You are by far owed a copy. I cannot dream to give back what you have given me, this is my biggest token. I hope you enjoy it.
Si...
I am writing you in sincere thanks. Twelve years ago I picked up a used copy of Reasons to Live. After reading and rereading all of your stories your work has taught me the proper rhythm and sound of thoughts when they transpire to language. You are by far one of my strongest influences among Kundera, Carver, and Munro. This book does not exist without you. You are by far owed a copy. I cannot dream to give back what you have given me, this is my biggest token. I hope you enjoy it.
Si...
January 31, 2015
Fourth Musical Act!
Fourth and Final Musical Act
In Leagues
Download their free debut EP Life and Limb here
http://inleaguesmusic.com/free-download-purchase-ep/
Every time a note falls, In Leagues catches it. Their songs building like lakes in a storm, too many tiny sounds to count. So download their debut ep “Life and Limb” (IT”S FREE!) and let the storm hit you, through it’s natural and expansive progressions.
“The little things have come to save us
From weathered chains around our ankles” (Little Things)
Ther...
In Leagues
Download their free debut EP Life and Limb here
http://inleaguesmusic.com/free-download-purchase-ep/
Every time a note falls, In Leagues catches it. Their songs building like lakes in a storm, too many tiny sounds to count. So download their debut ep “Life and Limb” (IT”S FREE!) and let the storm hit you, through it’s natural and expansive progressions.
“The little things have come to save us
From weathered chains around our ankles” (Little Things)
Ther...
January 28, 2015
Event write up in the SF Weekly
Check out this event write up for Sunday February 1st! The SF Weekly recommends you go, so you probably should.
"Sean Taylor's writing is delicate and off-kilter, a carnival mirror that distorts reality just enough for you to question what you're seeing without doubting it. In his first full-length collection of stories, Your Smallest Bones , just published by local Seventh Tangent Press, a couple push a grand piano into the middle of a frozen lake until, "You can measure the notes by how thick...
"Sean Taylor's writing is delicate and off-kilter, a carnival mirror that distorts reality just enough for you to question what you're seeing without doubting it. In his first full-length collection of stories, Your Smallest Bones , just published by local Seventh Tangent Press, a couple push a grand piano into the middle of a frozen lake until, "You can measure the notes by how thick...
January 26, 2015
Look I'm reading here!
I will be reading tonight in San Francisco at The Hotel Rex as part of the Bay Area Generations Reading Series. Click here for the FaceBook event Page. Here's the address562 Sutter St, San Francisco, California 94102 and It begins at 7:00pm.
I'll be reading this poem they published that I am quite fond of.
I'll be reading this poem they published that I am quite fond of.
