Jake Shaw's Blog, page 83

Teeth of Cascadia

Alpine wind
Falling
Forever
The air’s so thin

Leaves and stone and rain
And mud and snow and
Water and steps and slopes
And links in the chain

Then you don’t know the mind
Then you don’t understand
Then you don’t know the bite
Then you know the might

We’re dancing on the tongue
Looking up at
White cliffs
And granite outcrops

Then you don’t understand
As you walk and admire the span
Of every horizon so far below
The Teeth of Cascadia

Then you’ll know the plan
To get there
Was

Worth it more tha...

Waves

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I love you
Delectable, wonderfuk
Everything I need
To feel natural

Your sound is always
On the tip
Of my tongue
In any form

I love it
You make me feel
Natural
In any form

 

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Beginnings – Journal 3/9/17

Once upon a time, I was a boy, much like half of us here on Earth were at one point or another. Assuming you’re using biological sex instead of genders, which is what I prefer to do in this tiresome time of people feeling ignored and alone. When I feel ignored and alone, I write. Just like when I feel every other emotion I write. All their lines blur together quite a lot sometimes. Miserable happiness, somber anger, depressed joy, uplifting sadness. I tend to take what comes, and then I put i...

Metal on the Black

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Metal on the black
Scratches and cracks
Like sgraffito
In a black book
Oozing with the scent

Of chainsmoked cigarettes
Drowning in cheap red wine

Canyons form with
Sheer walls of iron
And nickel crystals

Filed under: Images, January Era (III)

Poikillmethermal

White walking down
The slate mountain

Snowing
Icicles

All the hallmarks
Of a sun-drenched
Alpine cascade
Of snow meadows
And blue trees

Every leaf a message
Every snowflake a
Way to think about
How to stay

At the peak

For weeks and freeze
With the solemn
Stoic gaze of the
Gorgon mountain

Waiting for when
Lightning strikes

And suddenly the
Place is shocked

Paralyzed

Time and place
Stopped and captured

With ice crystals
The stone
Refracting the light
Into fractals of
Beauteous designs

Shining t...

Shouldn’t Be

Shouldn’t be
Probability
Impossible

A glitch in the stream
A crack in the slab

Of a tablet
Held by an oracle
Who reads it

A black
Character marrrrr-
Mee-ta
Maaa-ar-ar-ar-k

This shouldn’t
Be happening

This shouldn’t exist

You shouldn’t be
Reading this

Couldn’t even
Undeeeeeeeeee
And

Why this shouldn’t be
Even though it’s what
I’m trying to
Explain

Typing…
Writing…
Cuts…

But of all of
These

This shouldn’t be

Filed under: January Era (III)

Lauren’s Hair

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Show with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/4.5; 1/40; ISO-400; 34mm[image error]

Show with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/4.5; 1/25; ISO-400; 37mm[image error]

Show with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/5.6; 1/60; ISO-400; 51mm

I’d been wanting to practice any kind of close ups. So these are some close ups of dyed hair, allowed by a friend of mine named Lauren (whom I’ll thank again for letting me get these). Something about the aesthetic of dyed hair has always been interesting to me, in the sense of “unnatural natur...

Neverash

It never happened
But it could have

What would it have been like?

Maybe like every other
One

Ending in fire and fury
Or a quiet pulverization

Or neverending

Never ashing

Not worth a
Second thought?

Maybe

Never started so
Suspended in stasis

A fire that froze
Like a slow-motion
Fuze

Lighting off

Space dust
Starstuff

By any other name,
Potential
Elements of creation
So close

But never to burn
To cinders
A zugzwang

Choices
Decisions

To always
Yet neverash

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Security

I remember when I first got the job I knew it wasn’t going to be a very special experience. It was a job with no upside other than money, and no downside other than taking time out of my day I’d rather enjoy wasting.

Being a security guard, I mean, who the hell would choose to do that over anything else. I can’t imagine any of the retirees I worked with earnestly looked to being in private security with glee and joy. I needed money for tuition.

I wasn’t planning on sticking around, but that’s...

Studio 7 Band on Xilent Night Last March

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Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/5.6; 1/125; ISO-400; 55mm

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