Michele McDannold's Blog, page 10
October 16, 2015
if your process needs a mountain, go.
west coast notebook entry #2 it’s very complicated. possible i might not come down from this highway crest in the clouds here comes the rain, just a sprinkle one could feel cold except the sun-direct patches of light you know what it reminds me of? as does everything right now… when i leave this mountain…
October 6, 2015
easy does it with that fire
when he brings me lighters the non-stop air is good setting of alarms is good in the mid-day blues playing shade drawn afternoon of him, life is good. i barely made it to presentable, chores and nervous energy. all wasted at the door as he steps in. this is the life now and soon dinner…
September 30, 2015
tonight, tomorrow, forever
if i told you you wouldn’t believe me so i just poem it where the sound of to blur the voice reaches cataclysmic rendering you know the one over crackled phone over a shallow breath of yet uncalculated risk if only the lines curved right at the dial tones a confession straight ahead
September 19, 2015
retreat
good morning in the still dark edgy shadows damp remembrance of yesterday reporting live from the drop-in motel where a combination of roadside picnics comforting if not serene & sad domestic situations occur simultaneously expired honey returns to her room with package in tow maybe it’s work maybe it’s the kind of work polite society…
August 26, 2015
August 12, 2015
getting into the notebooks
at the tee gee club #1 bob wants to hear metal we fumble the quarter and change the language to Spanish but eventually he gets it three songs later Planet Claire Elvis Costello and that one prince song all the while his fifth wife and a trip to the phillipines he gets his quarter time…
August 8, 2015
July 16, 2015
July 10, 2015
if you like poems & inspiration
please check out my friend’s blog http://acidloudacid.blogspot.com/ because sometimes you get lucky enough in life to know someone that by their mere existence spins your brainpan in just the right way how to decide if something is triggering the sound of a dog slurping water is triggering the accidental taste of grit, triggering. Aqua Net hairspray &…
June 28, 2015
no evidence of the drought here
Have you ever been passed super duper hungry, passed the grumbles.. onto the deep, empty ache which is bad enough on its own but really suck bubbly when the grumbles return again on top of it so you drink bad, cheap coffee and foolishly smoke cigarettes to stave and forget by at least feeding one…
