the ocean always dreamed blue dreams

Where does it come from,
my passion-
burgeoning, bumbling, burbling,
purple, red, inflamed-
like the Red Queen in a fury
or a fountain
of frothy, frothing water
light as air and filled with color
exploding into universes within the hidden crevices of my brain
then leaking out,
joyously or morosely
like a thin, filthy mattress
slept on by a high-jacked heiress in a forgotten basement;
my pores shimmer with ...

This is my cat, Puck. We've had him for a long time, about 18 years, I think. He is three years younger than Sukey, who was 20 when she passed on, on New Year's Day, 2009.

Anywho, it looks like we might have Puck with us for awhile longer. He is an extremely friendly, and indolent animal. He rarely moves. This has been his habit for as long as I've known him. He finds a place and camps out ...

My son graduated from high school last Sunday, June 5, 2011. I am very proud of him.

It has been a bit of a journey, getting him to this point. When he was in the fourth grade it began to be apparent that he was struggling in school. His teacher had assigned a research paper which she had broken down into kid sized bites, but still he hadn't done anything. So I got his things together and I helped him get his research done and the paper written. I mean that in the best sense. I didn't ...

It's been awhile since Ive written here, or written at all, for that matter. I have missed it a lot, and like others before me wondered if I'd ever write again.

Maybe. I don't know yet. All I know is I can feel the urge, long suppressed, begin to stir.

It's about time-and it feels good.


Calla Lily

oppress me with your beauty, white maiden,
press against my soul, make it smaller
with your large desire
dance ...

in my dream
you are sleeping peacefully,
brow sweaty
and your lips, pale, moving in and out
as they whisper
of the tempest and desire

leaning close I breathe,
"allons-y ensemble"

I can only be who I am
someone from whose lips spring
the froth of the sea
whose soul lays still upon the wave
before diving beneath it
knowing the terror and confusion that awaits
struggling to the ...