Jake Shaw's Blog, page 34

Driver’s License

It’s a day
And a half drive
From Highland
To here

I know this
Because my
Parents
Drove it

Many times I was
In the backseat
And taken here
On summer trips

Then one winter
We went
And didn’t
Look back

Just my mother
Father
And me
In the backseat

From the high desert
To south hill
Headphones in
The whole way

Movies and gifts
That my friends
Gave for
When I left

Just a week after
Our ‘Doomsday Party’
I was on the road
Being driven again

1,200 miles isn’t much
But still far enough
For the world to...

Self-Published – Journal 1/20/18

One of the extended goals for this year has been slain.

Abandon Ship is out on store shelves, in the Mad Hat Teahouse, and in King’s Books in Tacoma.

A month ahead of schedule, I might add!

I would love to say thank you specifically to Tobin at Mad Hat, for being wonderful to talk to and just generally fun to have made business with. Seriously, what a neat person. Bought the rest of my inventory with two places to pitch to to go. I walked out with some jasmine tea and two dollars more than I...

Marble Crackers 2

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Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/5.6; 1/80;ISO-400; 27mm. 1/15/2018 4:21 PM.

Up and around blocks in Capitol, we had one of the best days in the city passing legislation, flipping through records at Rainy Day, and having coffee lakeside.

Secret Sacred

Sneaking around
Over miles and memories
You seep into me

Sneaking into a home
Where I dwell for now

It’s a warm day outside
But warmer here when you
Surprise me

Coming in
Taking control
Of a bluetooth speaker

And filling these rooms
With your sound

With your love
With your kisses
And your scent

Secret and sacred
On the couch
Talking in a ruin

We’re in a new age
Of green tea frappes

I can love you
And we can go
Far

Pocket Infinity

Something in the air
A wisp in the cinders
Caught in a wind
Descending killer fog

Electric complexes
Shoot the sky
Intimidating by
Way of light

These bolts of fire
Crisp and uplift
An aura airborne
In alpine force

Inhalation of fractals
Fine dust spinning
Like a spiral galaxy
Suspended interstellar

Cloud complex
Garnished with stars
Flaking in the light
Of these powerful bolts

When they strike
Are set off
Intaking the bold
Ozone

Cold
But their meaning
Is stoic and
Choking

Infinite

Photographer Nine

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Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/5.6; 1/400; ISO-800; 18mm. 1/15/2018 3:33 PM.

We like taking photos, evidently. And I used to be worried about the idea of permanence. Not much anymore. Photography does that to you.

Subatomic Resonance

Nerves were made
To feel
What atoms
Repel

Since it’s resistance
At a distance
That “touch”
Really is

Never really
Making contact
Thanks to
Magnetics

Opposites attract
But when it gets atomic
Nerves are made
To feel

And the sensation we
Resonate with
Are really
Made by resistance

Abandon Ship

Branches like masts
Of ships sailing on
Ocean winds.
Leaves like cloth
Rigged to capture
The gusts

Billowing bravely,
Wanderingly,
Drifting yet rooted.
So the sail itself
Begins to rip
Away from its bark,

Tearing cloth and rope,
Shearing stem with breeze
Silencing wave sound
In the leaves
As they cascade
To entropy.

Breaking masts as they go.
Toppling crow’s nests
And shattering hulls,
Pieces of fabric
Lost and drowning
In currents of air,

Gathering someplaces
And marking paths
Of the ocean w...

Look Back

Nostalgia wanders
Up the mountains
And through valleys

If only I can
Bring you with me

Just one more thing
Look back at me
Smile happily
Through the regrowth

We’re in ruins
And evolving
Broken down and
Building up
In our hands
Spilled on the journey
Onto the glass
Through the outer edges

Just one more thing
Look back
And smile at me
Through outer edges
Of the glass
Streaking in silver
Printed tracks
Across the surface
Waves spilled
From an ocean parted

To journey through
Reflections in water
...

Welcome 2018 – Journal 1/2/18

Happy new year everybody. Anyone really feel that different? Anyone feel like an arbitrary gauge of the passage of time adds to the confidence you’ll have in achieving a ‘resolution’?

Well, cool! Anyone wanting to take that away would be a not great person!

I kicked off my new year playing Doom and having a pirate shot of Ciroc. As we here at Reality City do. Result: I’m still pretty amazing at Doom and nightmare difficulty hurts so good.

Seeing as it’s the new year, I’m going to lay out some...